The Pando is a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the US-but it's ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

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Recently, the students in Dawn Smart’s environmental science class received an assignment for their local ecology unit: Get ...

Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like a jellyfish to migrate.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Astronauts are set to swab the space station's exterior, searching for living microbes to better understand how they survive ...

A study reveals that environmental pollutants like metals and drug residues interact to amplify toxicity in the body, ...

Most corals are sessile organisms ... some free-living corals had the ability to move when exposed to light or sunlight, the finer details of how the creatures navigate their surroundings remained ...

Leopards often produce a unique, deep, guttural roar commonly described as “sawing” due to its resemblance to the sound of a ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...