Amphibian populations around the world are declining due to a skin disease caused by fungus. However, an amphibian commonly found in Louisiana, the three-toed amphiuma, has shown a resistanc... Read more
One in 10 people in America is fighting a rare disease, or a disorder that affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. Although there are more than 7,000 rare diseases that collectively affect mor... Read more
Now researchers suggest a certain kind of time machine could also possess another powerful capability — cloning perfect copies of anything. Time travel is often a way to change history in sc... Read more
It has come on like a tidal wave, washing across the Corn Belt from Minnesota to the Texas panhandle, a disease that few farmers had seen until five years ago. Known as Goss’s wilt, it has c... Read more
“Providing enough food to prevent starvation and famine certainly will be a daunting problem.” Mention great challenges in feeding a soaring world population, and thoughts turn to prov... Read more
Image by Marjorie Lipan via Flickr Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of millions of records of bird sightings. Midway through a birding expedition last May of... Read more