- Millions of new genes in human microbiome
- Solving the Easter Island population puzzle
- North Atlantic right whales decline confirmed: 458 remaining
- Exposure to pet and pest allergens during infancy linked to reduced asthma risk
- When it comes to the threat of extinction, size matters
- Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere
- New evidence for small, short-lived drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma?
- Tough stuff: Spider silk enhanced with graphene-based materials
- Genome editing reveals role of gene important for human embryo development
- Emerging disease further jeopardizes North American frogs
- Sleep deprivation is an effective anti-depressant for nearly half of depressed patients, study suggests
- DNA triggers shape-shifting in hydrogels, opening a new way to make ‘soft robots’
- RNA discovery could help boost plant heat, drought tolerance
- Dogs’ social skills linked to oxytocin sensitivity
- Vaping doubles risk of smoking cigarettes for teens
- Ultrafast snapshots of relaxing electrons in solids
- How Teotihuacan’s urban design was lost and found
- End-of-summer Arctic sea ice extent is eighth lowest on record
- Mercury’s poles may be icier than scientists thought
- Solar-to-fuel system recycles CO2 to make ethanol and ethylene
- Urgent emission reductions needed to achieve 1.5°C warming limit
- 5,000 deaths annually from Diesel-gate in Europe
- Light on exoplanets may be quite different from Earth: Different photosynthesis?
- Why we did not evolve to live forever: Unveiling the mystery of why we age