Some farmers in the western United States are forgoing irrigation, which can save on water and produce more flavorful fruits and vegetables.
Author James Riordon discusses his new book, why neutrinos are so important and how physicists are on the verge of making big discoveries about them.
An analysis of oceanic rocks hinted that ocean water drains into Earth’s mantle. How much makes it back into the ocean remains unclear.
Clinical trials of acoziborole are under way in sub-Saharan Africa, where sleeping sickness is endemic.
A theory proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in the 1950s helps explain how fingerprint patterns such as arches and whorls arise.
A newly discovered frog species in Tanzania joins a rare group of frogs that don’t croak or ribbit.
A new study explains why icicles made from pure water have irregular shapes rather than the ripples typical of the salty icicles found in nature.
Protected areas can provide safe havens for insects, but many existing ones fall short, a new study finds.
Finds in Kenya push Oldowan tool use back to around 2.9 million years ago, roughly 300,000 years earlier than previous evidence.
Psychedelics can get inside neurons, causing them to grow. This might underlie the drugs’ potential in combatting mental health disorders.
Thwaites is melting slower than thought, but the worst of it is concentrated in underbelly cracks, threatening the Antarctica glacier’s stability.
Far-reaching climate patterns like the El Niño-Southern Oscillation may synchronize droughts and regulate scorching of much of Earth’s burned area.
An experiment with a single electron, trapped for months on end, produced one of the most precise tests yet of the standard model of particle physics.
Quaoar’s ring lies outside the Roche limit, an imaginary line beyond which rings aren’t thought to be stable.
Cockatoos know when it will take a stick and a straw to nab a nut in a puzzle box. The birds join chimps as the only known nonhumans to use a tool kit.
Cleaner fish recognize themselves in mirrors and photos, suggesting that far more animals may be self-aware than previously thought.
Ocean life may have recovered in just a million years after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, fossils from South China suggest.