Humans Risk Killing Off One-In-Five of All Plant Species

Twenty-one percent of the world’s plant species—essential to food and medicine supplies—are threatened with extinction, according to a report published Tu...

Fighting Climate Change Burp By Burp

In grassy fields and research labs around the world, scientists are making a herculean effort to help fight climate change: one cow burp at a time.

Driven by pressu...

Huge 'Dead Zones' Could Appear in the World's Oceans by 2030 Because of Climate Change

Man-made climate change is already cutting into oxygen levels in some parts of the world's oceans and could start producing new "dead zones" in some parts of the seas by 20...

An Image Processing Trick Shows Mars In Unprecedented Detail

Researchers have released images of the Martian surface at five timesgreater resolution than previously seen, and they didn’t need to send a new camera into space to ...

This Map Tracks Thousands Of Cargo Ships To Highlight Their Carbon Emissions

The tiny specks of blue, red, and yellow on this world map depict the global pathways of tens of thousands of cargo ships.
The interactive map, co-created by researche...

If We Can Make A Zika Vaccine, Why Can't We Make One For Malaria

As the Zika virus continues to spread through the Americas, researchers have been scrambling to develop a vaccine—an achievement some say we could reach within the ye...

Saving Lives In Poor Nations Costs $ 5 Per Person

About $5 per person a year could avert the crisis of millions of child and maternal deaths in poor nations, according to a new report.According to John Hopkins researchers,...

It’s Now Possible To 3D Print A Pre-Assembled Robot

A new 3D printing technique from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has allowed researchers to “print” all of the parts of...

Polar Bears Losing Weight As Arctic Sea Ice Melts: Study

Three decades of melting sea ice has led to significant weight loss among the world’s southernmost population of polar bears, new data from Canadian researchers sugge...