Genetics

Long dry spells can give a lethal fungal disease a lift. While California droughts can temporarily keep cases of valley […]

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from passing fluids, researchers

One of the widest hurricanes on record slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast on September 26 as a powerful Category 4

One of the world’s richest biodiversity hot spots is Peru’s Madre de Dios, a region of the Amazon nestled at

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.

A barrage of intense, wild swings in climate conditions may have fueled the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history. A

In 2013, Ning Zeng came across a very old, and ultimately very important, log. He and his colleagues were digging

In 2023, a new type of apple made its commercial debut at a trade show in Berlin. The tutti is

For billions of years, the continents have moved across the Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived

This video was supported by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. TRANSCRIPT Maria Temming: In 2021, a historic heat