Who cuts emissions fastest, and who supports others in doing so, are central questions in global climate action. New ...

A synthetic biology technology has been developed that converts easily degraded messenger RNA (mRNA) into a ring-shaped form ...

Sulfur-crested cockatoos are surprisingly smart. In Australian cities such as Brisbane and Sydney, they've learned how to ...

Marine scientists have been amazed to discover an endangered sea cucumber can live for decades, with some animals living more ...

Children can be hard on a relationship, but some kids can bring parents closer together. Research from Rutgers University has ...

This year's El Niño has the potential to be one of the strongest in living memory, and the evidence is showing up around the ...

Researchers have engineered a drug treatment that shows rapid effectiveness against endometriosis in early testing, laying ...

For decades, Arctic sea ice has been melting earlier in spring and freezing later in fall, extending the melt season and ...

Beneath the vast frozen wastes of Antarctica lie the remains of ancient mountains that have long since eroded. Even though ...

Geopolitical rivalry, conflict, authoritarian nationalism and the systematic erosion of rules-based politics are reshaping ...

Gloeotrichia echinulata is a type of cyanobacterium that draws scrutiny because it tends to bloom in clear lakes, forming thick mats of visible green or white puffballs in otherwise clean water.

About 100 years ago, archaeologists unearthing pottery sherds in Tampa Bay found something unexpected. Some of the fragments ...