Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it ...

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica. The method could ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have confirmed a reintroduced platypus population in Royal National Park has now grown to 20 ...

Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an ...

A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality level off once animals move beyond living in pairs ...

Aligning with the International Day for Biological Diversity's theme of "Acting locally for global impact," researchers have ...

A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," ...

Vortices in superconductors have so far been considered a disruption, as they can impair the superconducting properties.

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, including the magnitude 5.8 Cairo earthquake in 1992, which dislodged some of the ...

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...

Hurricanes can be a devastating force—leveling trees, erasing beaches and damaging homes. But what do they do to wildlife? The answer ranges from the good to the bad to the ugly. Hurricanes sometimes ...

It may sound too bizarre to be true, but the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a fish that inhabits rivers, lakes, and swamps ...