Plants harness quantum physics to capture solar energy with near-perfect efficiency. Scientists are now exploring how to ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

And as the territory’s inhabitants have returned home since the ceasefire, the extent of the environmental devastation is ...

Researchers took a deep dive to understand why certain locations are more susceptible and attractive to invasions by non-native plants or animals, making them prime targets for these species to spread ...

A Chinese-foreign research team has discovered that soil invertebrates — such as termites, ants, and earthworms — play a ...

Lab Spotlight” is a biweekly column that highlights UW centers, institutions, and labs that are assets to their respective ...

Pesticides are significantly harming wildlife across the planet, stunting growth, damaging reproduction and even causing ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...