A new study reveals the impact of climate change on an ancient river civilization in Central Asia.

New research details major infrastructure work — including immense construction projects — that would need to start right away to achieve Biden’s goal of zero emissions by 2050.

Over the past ten years, scientists have argued about what the earliest animal really was.

The birth of these babies brought hope for a critically endangered whale species.

Your dog may be the apple of your eye, but let's be honest: she is an animal, with her own instincts and idiosyncrasies, and there are going to be times when she makes you want to tear your hair out.

Life was hard, but it wasn't like Hollywood Westerns.

An international team of researchers has discovered what it believes to be a new population of blue whales in the western Indian Ocean.

The finding of relatively high levels of the antimicrobial compound clovamide in the leaves of a disease-resistant strain of cacao has significant implications for breeding trees that can tolerate black ...

Fiber optics are faster than copper wire despite the latter being around for longer. Watch to find out.

A dozen ocean species new to science could already be threatened by climate change, scientists find.

N-Aryl-C-nitroazoles are an important class of heterocyclic compounds. They are used as pesticides and fungicides. However, these substances could be toxic to humans and cause mutations. As they are not ...

One had 8 arms and 2 tentacles.

Karin Lehmkuhl Bodony and Matthew Burtner have turned the electromagnetic field of the Northern Lights into music

Waste not, want not

It's nearly 10 times as long as the Grand Canyon, and three times as deep. But how did it form?

Removing salt from seawater to make it safe to drink means overcoming a number of scientific challenges, including optimising the membrane used for the desalination process – and new research into these membranes promises to make the whole operat

The words we choose to talk to and talk about individuals who use substances are critical, as they contribute to how drug policy, substance use treatment and societal understanding are framed.

Like someone put a giraffe’s head and neck on a horse’s body.

A new model estimates that by 2100, cities across the world could warm as much as 4.4 degrees Celsius. It’s a deadly consequence of the heat-island effect.