Science Topics Archives – Page 73 of 81

Disagreements in how we use words can cause major confusion. Sometimes, someone uses the word “far” to mean 50 miles, and other times…

For several decades scientists have been interested in the ability of psychrophilic (cold- loving) microbial communities to degrade the…

Human-caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to…

Harnessing ‘people power’ to manage fisheries in the developing world has significantly benefited local communities and coral…

Using an experiment carried into space on a NASA suborbital rocket, astronomers at Caltech and their colleagues have detected a diffuse…

A new analysis of geologic history may help solve the riddle of the “Cambrian explosion,” the rapid diversification of animal…

Scientists working on islands in Florida have documented the rapid evolution of a native lizard species — in as little as 15 years…

Cutting-edge paper by Professor George Fraser — who tragically died in March this year — and colleagues at the University of…

Birds that dive for fish while wintering in the Salish Sea, located between British Columbia and Washington, are more likely to be in…

Over the past two decades, the resident communities of birds that attend eastern North America’s backyard bird feeders in winter have…