Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

A new study suggests that future reductions in seasonal snowpack as a result of climate change may negatively influence forest growth in semi-arid climates, but less so in wetter climates.

The authors used global climate change computer models to predict how the frequency of two-year droughts may change in the coming decades and whether greenhouse gas emissions may have an effect.

Millions of people around the world face hunger every day, and unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to make the issue of food security even worse.

The research group of Prof. H. Tanaka (Shinshu University, RISM), Dr. S. Hiraide, Y. Sakanaka, Prof. M. T. Miyahara (Kyoto University), Dr. H. Kajiro (Nippon Steel Co.), Dr. S. Kawaguchi (JASRI) proposed a high-efficiency CO2 separation system using gate-type adsorbents.

Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf in the Arctic has collapsed, shrinking by about 80 square kilometers, or 40 percent of its area, over just two days at the end of July, according to scientists at the Canadian Ice Service.

Scientists have unveiled a correlation between high blood lead levels in children and methylation of genes involved in haem synthesis and carcinogenesis, indicating a previously unknown mechanism for lead poisoning.

A group of researchers from three Japanese universities has discovered why the western subarctic Pacific Ocean, which accounts for only 6 percent of the world’s oceans, produces an estimated 26 percent of the world’s marine resources.

A key component of the Gulf Stream has markedly slowed over the past century—that’s the conclusion of a new research paper in Nature Communications published on August 7.

Several thousand strains of bacteria live in the human gut.