Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing ...

Water-bombing aircraft and farmers' tractors joined forces Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day ...

Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual ...

Hurricane Lala was pulling away from Hawaii's Big Island early Sunday as heavy rain and strong winds struck the U.S. Pacific ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system ...

South America was a frightening place during the Miocene. More than 10 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of the continent, home to giant turtles and crocodylians.

The strongest glasses have an Achilles' heel that causes them to fail catastrophically when pushed past their limit. They do ...

Employers are increasingly investing in training to prepare their employees for artificial intelligence (AI). Training ...

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have spotted an extremely bright red spot in the early universe. The object resembles an ...

Astronomers have linked an X-ray flash discovered by the Einstein Probe to a known type of supernova with unusual features ...

A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic as part of a new weekly service on a route that cuts ...

Firefighters battled for a second day Sunday to contain a forest fire on the Greek Aegean island of Skyros, as the local ...