A team of scientists from around the world has created the first system that can predict when and where extremely powerful solar storms, called superflares, are most likely to happen. These storms can disrupt power grids, ...
As the U.S. government turns its attention to drug cartels in Mexico, new research from the University of California, Davis, suggests that violent competition among criminal organizations increases the risks migrants face ...
A new study found that land use (agricultural or forested) and the season (wet or dry) significantly impact groundwater quality, but in different ways.
A new prediction method was tested with satellite remote sensing and species distribution data over 20 years in Andalusia, making possible the development of more dynamic and integrative conservation area prioritization indicators.
"I had never worked with mushrooms before," Luis said, reflecting on his time in Chester County's mushroom industry. "But my family has always worked in agriculture, so I like it. I'm used to hard work."
Over the past two decades, the Gulf of Maine has become a popular landing spot for invasive species from across the world, says Geoffrey Trussell, an evolutionary biologist and professor at Northeastern University's Marine ...
The site of what is now the Metropolitan apartment complex on Oak Street in Boston has been at the heart of community life in the city's Chinatown neighborhood for nearly a century. A hub for the city's immigrants, it was ...
Siblings between the ages of 4 and 8 can have up to eight fights an hour, Northeastern University psychology professor Laurie Kramer says. If you don't live with children this age, that stat may seem a tad dramatic; if you ...
Patterns in chaos have been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on November 27 in Nature, the researchers detail ...
Physicists have been trying to design fusion reactors, technologies that can generate energy via nuclear fusion processes, for decades. The successful realization of fusion reactors relies on the ability to effectively confine ...
