New research reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. The study provides the first experimental demonstration of ...

Research co-led by the University of Maryland reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can ...

Ice cream has a simple ingredient list – just cream and sugar, but as anyone who’s tried to make it knows, this frozen dessert can easily become a sticky, icy mess. Food scientist Douglas Goff ...

Eelgrass is a critical habitat for fish, protects against coastal erosion and stores carbon. But it's threatened by pollution and climate change. Dozens of local scientists are working to protect and ...

A Thompson Falls High School class experiment has been recognized by a national organization. Doree Thilmony's Planting ...

Igor Fernandes, a graduate student in statistics and analytics who is researching plant breeding, placed first in a contest sponsored by the Sixth International Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural ...

Laura Sanders reports on neuroscience for Science News. She wrote Growth Curve, a blog about the science of raising kids, from 2013 to 2019 and continues to write about child development and ...

For now, scientists are one step closer to understanding the delicate balance of growth and defense in plants. The study was a team effort involving nine Princeton researchers, including six ...

We can help! Science News Explores and the Science News in High Schools Digital Library offer a variety of free, age-appropriate STEM resources for kids from fifth through 12th grades. Stay up to ...

Over time, many considered it a harmless quirk of physics, dismissed without much further investigation. Now, fresh experiments suggest that this behavior might carry deeper implications related to ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science ... experiment is to find out how long seeds of different plants ...