The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a ...

A majority of 8th-graders and roughly a third of 10th- and 12th-graders do not see great risk in using fentanyl once or twice ...

A whole-genome analysis of Beefalo, a hybrid bison-cattle breed, suggests very few individuals have any bison DNA at all, a ...

Liang Bua cave, purported cut marks on elephant bones and charred remains from other animals led some researchers to propose ...

A massive bolt of lightning that lit up the sky from Dallas to Kansas City, Mo., in October 2017 is officially the longest single flash ever recorded. A reanalysis of satellite data collected during ...

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history ...

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the ...

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark ...

Fake, painted decoys suggest immature coloring acts as a social signal, reducing aggression from territorial nesting gulls.

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Samples collected at daring heights provide evidence for an untested theory of tree drought adaptation, while countering ...

Reassuring evidence on acetaminophen’s safety in pregnancy keeps growing, with another study that compares siblings with ...