Major shifts in temperature and rainfall caused the disappearance of communities long before 1492, researchers have found

Penn study identifies protein that could be key to new immunotherapies

Named Olea hensoni, the slug belongs to the sacoglossans, a group of more than 300 species that are such enthusiastic eaters of plants that many of them turn green

The idea of the UMBS Adaptive Aspen Management Experiment is to replace some of the century-old aspen with a mix of tree species and age groups that may be better equipped to handle a warming climate

Findings show how to make confined bubbles develop uniformly, instead of in their usual scattershot way

Building on new insights about nanoparticles, investigators develop a test for early detection of diseases, including different types of cancer

The pervasive myth that intensive breeding has made modern wheat cultivars weaker and more dependent on pesticides and fertilizers is debunked by a major new study

How life's first step happens has long fascinated developmental biologists

Increased chemical stability and biocompatibility of the particles makes them useful for a number of applications, including sensing and biomedicine

Study shows how healthy people can sometimes misattribute touch to the wrong side of their body, or even to a completely wrong part of the body