Biologists are making progress in studying one of Kansas’ most elusive and mysterious nocturnal species. Flying squirrels may ...

MIT's discovery of 2-methoxyethanol in space reveals new insights into the development of molecular complexity in space ...

The Curiosity Mars rover has detected intriguing chemical evidence, in the form of anomalous amounts of manganese oxide, ...

Sunflowers aren't just beautiful symbols of summer—they are also economically significant, ranking as the fourth most ...

The link between massive flood basalt volcanism and the end-Triassic (201 million years ago) mass extinction is commonly ...

Oddly enough, binary stars born from the same parental cloud of collapsing gas and dust aren't always identical twins. It's ...

Cicadas have captured the imagination for thousands of years with their strange, buggy beauty and swelling songs. Davidson College Professor of Biology Chris Paradise shares why this upcoming cicada ...

If there are very high iron abundances and substantive nickel abundances, this could provide indications of a core-like origin, says Lawrence. The actual value of nickel abundances (high or low ...

A stronomers taking a closer look at Uranus believe it could be filled with a lot more methane than we previously thought.

China is attempting to recover the first-ever soil and rock samples from the lunar far side. The surface mission, Chang'e 6, ...

Studying and eventually understanding our planet Venus remains our best hope for characterizing earth-mass planets circling ...

A study of pollen and spore abundances revealed a profusion of fern spores showing a range of malformations, from abnormalities in wall structure to evidence for botched meiotic divisions, leading to ...