Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the French scientist, is known as the Father of Chemistry (Specifically, the Father of Modern ...

Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

A plant's success may depend on how well the three sets of genetic instructions it carries in its cells cooperate, according ...

Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings, based on an analysis of the biology and ...

Summary: The simple act of breathing shapes how and when memories are successfully retrieved. Participants recalled learned word-image pairs more accurately when reminder cues were presented during or ...

Institute of Environment & Resources, Bygningstorvet, Building 115, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark, Limnological Research Station and Department of Hydrology, University of ...

Phototrophic organisms harbor two main bioenergetic hubs, photosynthesis and respiration, and these processes dynamically exchange and share metabolites to balance the energy of the cell. In ...

Leaf dark respiration (R-dark) is an important yet poorly quantified component of the global carbon cycle. Given this, we analyzed a new global database of R-dark and associated leaf traits. Data for ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

A stooped, bespectacled man disembarked last week from the Swedish ship Drottningholm, hurried to the campus of Pennsylvania’s sedate Swarthmore College where he delivered the first of a series of ...