An unusually heavy spring storm across the Alps sparked chaos on Thursday, as it dumped more than a meter of snow in some ...

A new study has investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when ...

Imagine the tiniest game of checkers in the world—one played by using lasers to precisely shuffle around ions across a very small grid.

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

Secondary school boys get lower grades than girls and this is partly due to the fact that their friends are more likely to ...

Extreme rainfall events can cause devastating floods, landslides, and widespread damage, yet predicting them remains a major challenge. While scientists often study how often and how intensely it ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

Rather than hiding from predators, the brightest and most patterned sea slugs are active during the day so their colors shine ...

It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in ...

Researchers from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB) have described a new mechanism ...