A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

A metric that looks beyond height and weight to underlying biological markers of metabolic health is providing revised ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks.

A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, forcing a rethink on ...

The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes, and aquifers depleting faster than nature can ...

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, ...

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high.

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...

The je ne sais quoi that gives Black Ivory coffee its smooth, chocolatey flavor may lurk deep in the bowels of Earth's ...