A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, a leading candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life, has a surface dotted with enigmatic ...

Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...

Shell is positioning itself to return to Venezuelan waters in pursuit of natural gas projects that could be worth billions of ...

It doesn't appear dramatic at first glance. A spherical fossil discovered on dry ground in central India, one of many found ...

A pearl does not begin as something precious. It begins as a problem. Inside an oyster, a tiny particle slips in and settles where it does not belong..

For more than 300 years, Italians have fried soft-shell green crabs, called moeche. But the culinary tradition is under threat ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) around their genomes, a process that—while messy and complex—consistently ...

The eggshell is an important structure for two reasons. Firstly it forms an embryonic chamber for the developing chick, providing mechanical protection and a controlled gas exchange medium. Secondly ...

Orsola De Marco received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated (non-executive director of the Board) with Astronomy Australia Ltd. a not-for-profit company serving Australian ...