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The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel were recognised for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Read more: Foundational brain researchers win Nobel prize
Trees are usually seen as climate heroes. But across the Plains states, "woody encroachment" is crowding out the prairie.
THE government is advancing plans to transform the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSTI) into a fully-fledged Ghana Space Agency to strengthen the country’s participation in the…
The idea that ecosystems carry plenty of backup, so if a small number of species become extinct there is little harm, has been greatly overestimated, according to the largest global study of its kind.
Every year, thousands of salamanders and frogs try to cross from their wooded winter homes in the U.S. state of New Hampshire to the swamps they breed in.
Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering optogenetics, a revolutionary technique that uses light to control neurons and holds the potential to treat conditions like…
