Science

For sweeping drama, it's hard to beat hydropower from dams -- a renewable source of electricity that helped build much of the developed world....

Many farms have areas where the ground either floods or does not retain enough water or fertilizer for crops to thrive. Such marginal lands...

Increased production of corn in the United States has largely been credited to advances in farming technology but new research shows that changing temperatures...

Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, made almost entirely of materials spewed from the Big Bang.

Although dairy pastoralism once made Mongolian steppe herders successful enough to conquer most of Asia and Europe, the origins of this way of life...

Quantum systems can be manipulated with extremely high, but not with perfect precision. Researchers have now demonstrated how errors that occur during such operations...

While microbial communities are the engines driving the breakdown of dead plants and animals, little is known about whether they are equipped to handle...

Adults who sleep just six hours per night -- as opposed to eight -- may have a higher chance of being dehydrated, according to...

A genetic scan of a massive number of samples taken from tuberculosis patients across China has shown a surprising genetic uniformity: just two 'strains'...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery in their mission to understand how cells stay healthy, uncovering an important connection between a cell's sugar metabolism...