Herbs, including cilantro, have a long history of use as folk medicine anticonvulsants. Until now, many of the underlying mechanisms of how the herbs worked remained unknown.

Former Hurricane Flossie was nothing more than a remnant low pressure area early on Tuesday, August 6. 

Trees are seen as saviors in an era of climate change. 

Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, have in collaboration with researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in England, demonstrated that certain Aloe species shrink, or more scientifically speaking - fold - their cell walls together. 

A phenomenon that makes coral spawn more than once a year is improving the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.

Ocean acidification is bad news for shellfish, making it harder for them to form their calcium-based shells. 

Say you’re a scientist who studies the origins and history of food, and you want to communicate to the world your findings that the all-American hamburger – including the side of fries – doesn’t contain a single ingredient that originally came from the United States. 

Blood pressure monitoring might one day become as easy as taking a video selfie, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association journal.

Some volcanoes take their time—experiencing protracted, years-long periods of unrest before eventually erupting.

An international team of researchers have published a study exploring the association between summer temperature and drought across Europe placing recent drought in the context of the past 12 centuries.