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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Earth is currently under bombardment from one of the most powerful geomagnetic storm categories the Sun can unleash.

"This gap is especially limiting in longevity research, where admixed supercentenarians may harbor unique protective variants ...

The temperature trends don't bode well for the penguins: colony locations are warming up four times faster than the average ...

For many years now, scientists have tracked a phenomenon called ocean darkening – a long-term, gradual drop in water clarity ...