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For billions of years, life has depended on Earth's rhythm of day and night. DNA codifies body clocks in all animals and ...

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A young friend of ours, an emergency room nurse, was staying at our home for a few days when we were out of town. I nonchalantly asked her to give my plants a little water if they felt dry.

Across the globe, wildlife is in crisis. Insect populations are crashing, bird species are disappearing, and pollinators, the unsung heroes of food production, are vanishing at alarming rates.

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In recent years, global climate change has led to frequent extreme weather events. Meteorological disasters such as hail have ...

The system, introduced by the French entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur in 1735, is a measurement of heat ...

Turritopsis dohrnii can reverse aging through a process called transdifferentiation, giving it a form of biological immortality.

The consequences of nuclear catastrophe extend far beyond the initial explosion—it could dismantle global food security for ...

The now widely recognised problems facing insect pollinators are closely linked to losses of such native forage plants in our landscapes over the course of the past 100 years ...

Essential oils are a common treatment for repelling pests, but do they actually work? We consulted experts to see what is ...