Whether strolling through the woods or taking a rest from outdoor labor, autumn is a time when people contemplate the value ...

DNA from a new Bartonella bacterium has been detected in sand flies in the Brazilian Amazon, similar to the strains that ...

Lignins—the complex molecules that make plants sturdy and allow them to grow tall—are not as random as once thought. A new ...

Roughly a decade ago, both Dollar Tree Inc. and archrival Dollar General Corp. were bidding for Family Dollar as the rapidly growing dollar-chain industry opened lots of new stores. When Dollar Tree ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Scientists have discovered a "perfect disordered hyperuniform" pattern in how plants arrange themselves across many dry ...