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Living with Wildfires: Fighting Fire with Fire

How do people live with the threat of wildfires, and what can be done to protect lives? Indigenous Californians may have a solution.

Paleontology

Did extinct these animals have cheeks? Paleontologists work from fossils of dinosaurs, so how can they know? An anatomist explains.

By Radhika Desikan A seed is the beginning of new life for most flowering plants. It has all the potential…

With climate change and other environmental challenges looming large, does the use of organic biofuels help reduce transportation emissions?

Biology Botany

Plants need nitrogen, and many plants depend on fertilizers to get enough. But scientists have been growing plants without fertilizers.…

To understand how life began, we must look far back in time. Back to a time when RNA, not DNA, might have been the building block of life.

Scientists studied how plants can grow better in conditions that mimic microgravity in space, highlighting the prospects of future space farming.

Pictured in the image above is the Jansky Laboratory, where scientific research is conducted at the Green Bank Observatory, with…

An intense wildfire can produce its own weather, potentially causing thunderstorms and even “firenadoes.” Read on to learn how.

Chemistry

Flow cytometry is a common laser technique scientists use to look at the characteristics of each single cell in a…