Science

A Hebrew University team has found, through genetic research, how plants make aerial roots – allowing smarter, more effective way to grow crops and plants.

Researchers discovered that sunlight might help dissolve oil in saltwater, offering insight into solutions for environmentally disastrous oil spills.

Heart valve transplants from animals tend to degenerate over the next decade because of foreign sugars they produce.

Based on thighbone and tooth variations among dozens of its fossils, researchers think that the iconic Tyrannosaurus is actually three species.

Although there seems to be no apparent evolutionary advantage for one blood group over another, their distribution is markedly uneven. How did one blood group become more prevalent than others?

The mission is poised to launch on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket and would be the first American spacecraft to land on the moon in nearly 50 years.

The researchers urge that more efforts be made to prevent societal extinction.

Designated 138971 (2001 CB21), the asteroid, passing by Earth on March 4, is estimated to be between 560 meters to 1.2 kilometers wide. It won't hit us, but you can watch it.

Australian researchers found evidence of dinosaurs as part of the best-preserved remains of stomach contents in a crocodyliform fossil.

The asteroid has an estimated size ranging between 190 meters and 430 meters, which could have posed serious danger.