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Termites—infamous for their ability to destroy wood—are rarely welcomed into rainforests that have been painstakingly ...

In the urban parks of Barcelona, Spain, the calls of a tropical parrot fill the air. The bright green monk parakeet, native ...

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Exactly 100 years ago, famed Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (yes, the cat guy) postulated his eponymous equation that ...

Drywood termites, the ones that hide in wooden structures, molt about seven times in their lives. UC Riverside researchers ...

Climate change is altering water availability—across the globe, and right on our doorstep. With a new interactive map, users ...

The ocean plays a large role in cycling carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Determining how much carbon is locked away in the ...

Over time, scar tissue slows or stops implanted bioelectronics. But new interdisciplinary research could help pacemakers, ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have listened to the music of a nearby star, uncovering ...