Satellite imagery of the Longmen Mountains reveals the destruction wrought by the Wenchuan Earthquake. There’s no snow depicted in this false-color composite image; all of the white patches are ...

The calving front of Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat in South Greenland. Researchers deployed the fiber optic cable several hundred meters from the glacier’s mouth.

These are teeth from Turtle Flat as we were discovering them — you can see what the ground behind looked like, and how amazing it was that Omar Abdulla first saw them on the surface,” said Amy Rector, ...

Researchers at Science Tokyo synthesize a borate-water-based electrolyte that enables high-performance, sustainable manufacturing, and easy recycling of lithium-ion batteries.

Two-dimensional liquid chromatographic separation of phenolics from Cannabis leaf and bud material, with each peak indicating a distinct compound present in the sample. An example structure of the ...

An artist’s interpretation of the inside of a fusion vessel, where some of the inner surfaces are directly exposed to the plasma. Some regions lie in the “magnetic shadow” of other components and are ...

Two state-listed plants found in northwest Illinois, from left: the dwarf, or fragile, prickly pear, Opuntia fragilis and the long-bract frog orchid, Dactylorhiza viridis.

Brian Charles, an Illinois Natural History Survey scientific specialist in botany, led a multiyear effort to rank threatened and endangered plant species in Illinois.

Two state-listed plants which persist in northeast Illinois: the bog buckbean, Menyanthes trifoliata, left, and the lesser purple-fringed orchid, Platanthera psycodes, which is critically imperiled in ...

Three state-listed plants that persist in northeast Illinois are, from left, the grass pink orchid, Calopogon tuberosus, the orange fringed orchid, Platanthera ciliaris, and the cuckoo flower, ...

Students and faculty gather at the Sombrilla Plaza on UTSA’s Main Campus to celebrate the Be Bold campaign.

Some of the state-listed plants in Illinois are carnivorous, like the round-leaved sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, left, and the purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.