A robot explores the dark, cold, deep sea floor of the South Atlantic, transmitting images of vibrant coral and fish never ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked ...

Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes?

Forests play a central role in the global carbon cycle as trees store carbon in their trunks, branches, roots and leaves.

This week, researchers at the University of Albany reported an extreme size difference between early human males and females, ...

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope revisits one of the most iconic regions of the sky, the Hubble ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a ...

A new study published in Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools explores how elementary school–aged peers can be ...

Physicists have used a machine-learning method to identify surprising new twists on the non-reciprocal forces governing a many-body system.

The world's oceans are being rapidly transformed as climate change intensifies. Corals are bleaching, sea levels are rising, ...

Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they ...