Leaders valued over managers, regardless of fit

Wildfires can pollute drinking water. That worries some in the hills above Santa Cruz

Etna spews smoke and ashes in spectacular new eruption

Comet from edge of solar system killed the dinosaurs: study

The 20 best places to tackle US farm nitrogen pollution

Millions endure record cold without power; at least 20 dead

Tijuana sewage pounded South Bay beaches last year. EPA says help is on the way

Researchers measure photosynthesis from space

Slow motion precursors give earthquakes the fast slip

Star employees get most of the credit—and blame

San Diego launches campaign to make city more resilient to climate change

Facilitating optogenetic control of plant growth by a microbial rhodopsin

Researchers solve riddle of plant immune system

A sharper look at the interior of semiconductors

Opponents of NJ offshore wind project worry turbines will affect views, fishing, and tourism

Application of potassium to grass used as cover crop guarantees higher-quality cotton

Creating a highway tunnel for ions

Nanotechnologies reduce friction and improve durability of materials

Common weed killers favor antibiotic resistant bacteria, new study shows

Battery: Getting the lead in

Crocodile evolution rebooted by Ice Age glaciations

3-D model shows off the insides of a giant permafrost crater

Experimental tests of relativistic chemistry will update the periodic table

How bacteria hunt bacteria

Tiny light-emitting probes give researchers a better option for noninvasive imaging of living tissue

Hospital wastewater favors multi-resistant bacteria

A backward-spinning star with two coplanar orbiting planets in a multi-stellar system

Record breaking observations at a depth of 172 metres shed light on how hard coral survives without light

Direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide with a platinum-gold nanoparticle catalyst

Past earthquakes triggered large rockslides in the Eastern Alps

Cells use concentration gradients as a compass

Insights from complexity science: More trust in self-organization needed

Microbes could pose health, ecosystem risks when rain brings them to Earth

New dataset opens Estonian soil information for versatile use

Internet access spending in public schools increases test scores, but also disciplinary problems

Perceiving predators: Understanding how plants 'sense' herbivore attack

Finding coronavirus's helper proteins

Supercomputer turns back cosmic clock

Researchers find a novel connection between cell metabolism and cell division

Cloudy eyes caused by protein imbalance

Gene silencing by crosstalk

Russian scientists probe prehistoric viruses dug from permafrost

ViralLink identifies key proteins in SARS-CoV-2-infected cells: workflow open to all

The Future of Mars Exploration

Secret to how cholera adapts to temperature revealed

The Dark Side of CRISPR

Secret to how cholera adapts to temperature revealed

The smallest galaxies in our universe bring more about dark matter to light

Breakthrough in the fight against spruce bark beetles

Millions struggle without power as cold snap grips US

International team first to stack virus resistance plus iron and zinc in a non-cereal crop

High-tech start-ups benefit from Twitter hype

Regional variation in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on data collection

Record sunshine during first COVID-19 lockdown largely caused by unusual weather

Study finds alligator hearts keep beating no matter what

Targeting Nsp1 protein could be a pathway for COVID-19 therapy

Fujitsu leverages world's fastest supercomputer and AI to predict tsunami flooding

Campylobacter strains exchange genes, can become more virulent and antibiotic resistant

Despite sea-level rise risks, migration to some threatened coastal areas may increase

Quantum leaps in understanding how living corals survive

Evolution of cereal spikes

Evolution's game of rock-paper-scissors

Biologists devise new way to assess carbon in the ocean

New microscopy analysis allows discovery of central adhesion complex

New discovery may enable accurate prediction of cancer spread before cancer develops

Photosynthetic bacteria-based cancer optotheranostics

Move over heavy goggles, here come the ultra-high refractive index lenses

A glimpse into the formation of the mitoribosome

How Biden's Environmental Justice Order Might Work

Existing heart failure drug may treat potential COVID-19 long-hauler symptom, study suggests

Climate change forces rethinking of conservation biology planning

Breakthrough in organic chemistry: Asymmetric syntheses of useful, unique chiral compounds

Scientists create a framework to test the predictions of biological optimality theories, including evolution

In search of super-Earths: Spectrograph CRIRES+ at ESO's Very Large Telescope

Hydrogel promotes wound healing better than traditional bandages, gauzes

The Epic, Absurdly Complex Battle between a Zombie Maker and Its Victim

Members face 'Catch-22' challenges joining online communities

Tapping into waste heat for electricity by nanostructuring thermoelectric materials

The vertical evolution of volatile organic compounds vary between winter and summer

Shrubs and soils: A hot topic in the cool tundra

Dual character of excitons in the ultrafast regime: Atomic-like or solid-like?

Researchers reveal the biogeographical patterns of fern diversity

Moon's largest crater holds clues about early lunar mantle

Winter's wrath: Bitter cold, no power and a deadly tornado

At least three dead in North Carolina tornado

Graphene 'nano-origami' creates tiniest microchips yet

Image: Netherlands in white

The Shrapnel That Killed the Dinosaurs

Classic milpa maize intercrop can help feed communities forgotten by development

European Space Agency seeks diversity in new astronaut drive

Researchers develop algorithm to find possible misdiagnosis

Further action on cadmium needed for global food safety

Researchers unveil detailed genome of invasive malaria mosquito

Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America's largest animals

Sloshing quantum fluids of light and matter to probe superfluidity

The effect of natural disasters on charitable and criminal activity

International study reveals exceptional property of next generation optical fibres

Subduction may recycle less water than thought

Water is a probable vector for mammalian virus transmission

Spacecraft reveal new details of magnetic reconnection

We tested tiger snake scales to measure wetland pollution in Perth. The news is worse than expected

Answer quickly to be believed

All the colours of the dingo: not just a yellow dog

Five ways to reduce your household waste – and stop it being shipped to poorer countries

Polymers can protect buildings from large fault ruptures

How icebergs really melt—and what this could mean for climate change

Wastewater treatment at one-third the size and cost

Tiny new species discovered as scientists' outback fishing trip bags exotic catch

Breakthrough material can protect satellites from ultraviolet radiation and atomic oxygen in low-Earth orbit

Blind shrimps, translucent snails: the 11 mysterious new species we found in potential fracking sites

Improving performance of a thermoelectric material by partially substituting selective atoms with cations

Modeling eternity in the rock laboratory

A combined map of almost 15,000 dust storms on Mars

Solution to puzzling phenomenon may open door to improved cold spray efficiency

Scientists able to predict epidemic size and evolution in a first-of-its-kind study

Research finds NHS use of management consultants is a harmful habit

ASASSN-18aan is an unusual cataclysmic variable, study finds

Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America's largest animals

Planetary scientists discover evidence for a reduced atmosphere on ancient Mars

How to spot Mars: See the red planet in the sky the day NASA's Perseverance rover lands

Social Justice Movements, Exomoons and a Century of Bird Banding

Bill Gates and the problem with climate solutionism

Experimental demonstration of measurement-dependent realities possible, researcher says

How can researchers quickly access complex molecules for drug discovery?

Integrating maths and plant science to explain how plant roots generate a hormone gradient

A tiny crystal device could boost gravitational wave detectors to reveal the birth cries of black holes

Astronauts test virus-fighting surface coating

Astrophysicists re-imagine world map, designing a less distorted, 'radically different' way to see the world

Graphene 'nano-origami' creates tiniest microchips yet

Collagen structures get the royal reveal

Demonstration of unconventional transverse thermoelectric generation

Aging: What underlies the mitochondrial stress response

Printing a Brain Aneurysm in a Dish

Groundwater recharge rates mapped for Africa

NASA wants to fly a helicopter on Mars for the first time

Perseverance rover lands on Mars this week

Kenya's locust hunters on tireless quest to halt ancient pest

In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations

Biotech fit for the Red Planet: New method for growing cyanobacteria under Mars-like conditions

Drinking, smoking, and drug use linked to premature heart disease in the young