Pacific corals and fish can both smell a bad neighborhood, and use that ability to avoid settling in damaged reefs.
The ecological effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill are still largely unknown. Senior writer Josh Fischman is on the research vessel Endeavor in the Gulf of Mexico with a team of university scientists seeking answers.
Summer heat fuzzing your concentration? Making you fumble? It may be dehydration.
How chiral systems emerged is one of the key questions of origins-of-life research.
