Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s have helped scientists accurately estimate the age of whale sharks, the biggest fish in the seas, according to a Rutgers-led study.

Scientists know that coronaviruses, including the SARS-CoV-19 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can remain infectious for days — or even longer — in sewage and drinking water. 

Before there were farms in southwest Michigan, there were prairies.

A protein called phytochrome B, which can sense light and temperature, triggers plant growth and controls flowering time. How it does so is not fully understood.

At 500 meters deep, the Makhtesh Ramon is the world’s largest erosion crater.

Open biomass burning (OBB) can impact regional air quality, especially the heavy haze pollution in Northeast China (NEC) in recent years.

Despite centuries of rampant overfishing and pollution, marine life in the world’s oceans could be fully restored in as little as 30 years with aggressive conservation policies, according to a new scientific review published in the journal Nature.

A Nordic study sheds new light on the role of northern peatlands in regulating the regional climate.

Melatonin controls the body clock – high melatonin levels make us feel tired in the evening.

A new study by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) found that human-induced environmental stressors have a large effect on the genetic composition of coral reef populations in Hawai‘i.