Tree cover in the nation's Lower 48 states covers 659 million acres, more than one-third of the nation, according to a U.S. Forest Service study of national tree cover and impervious surfaces. New Hampshire leads the nation ...
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered that ice retreated completely through the glaciations.
Tale of two scientific fields -- ecology and phylogenetics -- offers new views of Earth's biodiversity
Patterns in nature are in everything from ocean currents to a flower's petal.
Imagine taking 400 scientists on an alien road trip where each one wants to examine every interesting rock along the way. Welcome to the next two years of NASA's landmark robotic mission on Mars.
News outlets need to be held to account for their coverage of the English riots, a new report has argued.
New research suggests the more friends we have on Facebook, the less likely we are to share information about charitable causes.
An international collaboration led by physicists of the University of Vienna shines new light on the question of the resources required for achieving quantum information processing. The scientists demonstrate that less demanding ...
(Phys.org) -- A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth's land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century. The research ...
NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars.