For a long time, the soil was the domain of chemistry and physics. This only changed forty years ago. Today, the soil has ...

Might sinuous ridges carved out across the ancient highlands of Mars hold the secret to a vanished age of rivers and rain on the Red Planet? Over 15,000 kilometers of such fluvial sinuous ridges, or ...

There's something magnetic about a group of people looking in the same direction—others will follow their gazes to see what ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up ...

Oregon scientists are cloning wolves to aid conservation but the controversial move raises big questions about nature, control, and genetic ethics. #wolfcloning #oregonwildlife # ...

Norway spruce trees produce various monoterpenes to defend themselves against both bark beetles and microbial pathogens.

Parametric models allow to reflect system behavior in general and characterize individual system instances by specific parameter values. For a variety of scientific disciplines, model calibration by ...

Conservation ecologist Dr Bernard Coetzee, a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, was recently recognised as part of The Explorers Club’s 50’s Class of 2025, highlighting 50 individuals who ...