As Australia officially enters winter, UniSA ecologists are urging coastal communities to embrace all that the season brings, including the sometimes-unwelcome deposits of brown seaweed that can accumulate on the southern shores.

Anyone who collects mushrooms knows that it is better to keep the poisonous and the non-​poisonous ones apart. 

In Europe, beachgoers have grown accustomed to the dispiriting sight of plastic garbage strewn along shorelines. 

New structure shows how virus envelope protein hijacks cell-junction protein and promotes viral spread. 

Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech and their colleagues from the US and Germany have developed a new neural network that can reliably detect coronal holes from space-based observations. 

Puerto Rico is not ready for another hurricane season, let alone the effects of climate change, according to a new study that shows the island’s outstanding capacity to produce record-breaking floods and trigger a large number of landslides.

Scientists have invested great time and effort into making connections between a plant’s genotype, or its genetic makeup, and its phenotype, or the plant’s observable traits. 

“The big mystery about plankton is what controls its distribution and abundance, and what conditions lead to big plankton blooms,” said Dennis McGillicuddy, Senior Scientist and Department Chair in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

There was no discernible signal in the data from the global economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. 

New paper: precipitation-related “feedback” cycle means models may overestimate warming