Snakes climbing trees use significantly more force than necessary to grip, a strategy detailed in Biology Letters. This overcompensation, sometimes tr ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

How does climate change affect the way humans organize themselves? How has it shaped the course of human evolution? An ...

Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they ...

Science policy interface (SPI) emerges when scientific knowledge is effectively incorporated to inform policymaking, enabling environmental policy to act as a catalyst for transformative change.

Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics revisited through epigenetics in a groundbreaking study on cold-adapted rice ...

To elucidate the mechanism of coal spontaneous combustion (CSC) and its dynamic evolution under hypoxic conditions, this study employed programmed temperature elevation combined with in situ ...

Extensive national and sub-national level investigations concluded that the right to a healthy environment is insufficiently integrated into the finance and health sectors. 49 This lack of integration ...

Kids attending University of Texas Permian Basin’s Environmental Science Summer Academy took a field trip to the I-20 Wildlife Preserve. They also went to the Petroleum Museum and Carlsbad Caverns.

Quantifying surface-specific kinetics of organic oxidation in heterogeneous catalytic systems remains a critical challenge due to the interplay of adsorption and complex reaction mechanisms. In this ...

The geographers were like, well, languages next to each other tend to be in the same kind of environment… the people in climate science said, well, the climate has changed over the last 10,000 ...