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If done early, a thinned young forest can store as much carbon as an un-thinned one despite being heavily outnumbered.
Hundreds of thousands of infants will be vaccinated against the mosquito-carried parasite.
Water management policy needs to adapt to constantly shifting environmental conditions, else we risk repeating the downfall of the Maya.
The most comprehensive bone analysis of its kind shows Homo floresiensis didn't share important features with Homo erectus.
Bacteria are getting tougher but scientists are not sitting idle.
Sugary drinks literally cause the brain to shrink, leading to poorer memory.
Sculpture or noise box?
The drugs were manufactured to treat different conditions but they also seem to block an important pathway linked to brain cell death.
This could have been going for decades but scientists are worried nevertheless.
Such discoveries keep piling up. We can only rejoice.
Homing pigeon have their own form of cumulative culture passing down information about routes do their peers.
This new state of matter could be key to building quantum computers.
The little brother of LHC might be on to something big!
Amazonian shamans have been making the brew for ages. Now, science confirms for the first time its therapeutic potential against depression.
The matter flows against the pushing force.
Antibiotic resistance is threatening to undo a centuy's worth of medical progress.
This could be a game changer.
A classic science experiment was revisited to explore the origin of life.
This map shows how a dark matter bridge connects galaxies together.
The 245-million-year-old fossils overturns the established view that early dino relatives were the size of a chicken and feeble.
Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.
Hundreds of chemical compounds were identified but the real tally could be in the order of thousands.
Fingerprint auth isn't as secure as most people think.
It's all about the conservation of angular momentum.
One step forward, two steps back.
The answer to this deceptively simple question could help scientists better understand structures like DNA.
Gentoo penguins are prolific poopers, much to the delight of some scientists.
Studying Mars' ionosphere and its metal ions might explain how the planet lost most of its atmosphere (and liquid water).
A rare sight 4.50 million kilometers away.
The algorithm exploited the motion and orientation data recorded by a smartphone's accelerometer or gyroscope.
The debate isn't over, but a comprehensive gene study suggests marine jellyfish were the first creatures to diverge. This distinction is commonly attributed to sponges.
The study found that most people think old books smell like 'chocolate'.
Money doesn't grow on trees but food does.
The American company is looking to position itself as a sustainable energy power house.
More and more Americans are waking up to reality but many are still left dazed and confused.
There's no reason to panic but what's certain is flights will become more uncomfortable.
The inspiring story of Marsh Arabs and their amazing sustainable floating homes.
Smoking tobacco with hookah pipes is not harmless at all, despite what you might have heard.
Cannibalism for food doesn't make much sense a recent study suggests.
An illustrated timeline of the greatest moments in science.
This was thought to be impossible to undertake until not too long ago.
Let's put the hype away for a second and see what sets these two technologies apart.
In 2015, one in ten people died because of smoking.
Cracked screens and scratches might finally become history.
We have a pretty solid track record for ignoble milestones.
Two megafloods destroyed a huge land bridge that connected Dover to Calais.
The wildest things can get trapped in amber.
From bad to worse.
Immunization is important.
Desalination might one day be as easy as passing water through a sieve.
