New York City's mayoral election has become the race to watch because of its surprisingly competitive nature but also the ...

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have investigated the galaxy NGC 7793, searching ...

United Launch Alliance scrubbed an attempt for what would have been its second launch of the year, another mission for Amazon ...

An extraordinary discovery was made at the Valencina Copper Age mega-site in southwest Spain, which has captured the ...

According to the first-ever survey fielded by RAND's new American Youth Panel (AYP), 49% of students in middle and high ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 ...

Native plant species cannot adapt quickly enough, nor move fast enough to keep ahead of climate change. If native plants are ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified 4,208 previously unannotated open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 human-associated viral genomes using a high-throughput method ...

Ecosystem responses to global change are often nonlinear. Ecological thresholds are tipping points beyond which small changes ...

Artificial light may be lengthening the growing season in urban environments by as much as 3 weeks compared to rural areas, ...

A flesh-eating parasitic fly is invading North and Central America. The consequences could be severe for the cattle industry, ...

When you think of dinosaurs, you might imagine towering predators or gentle giants roaming prehistoric landscapes. But what ...