A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals ...

Using data from the Magellan Clay telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), astronomers have investigated a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 5824. Results of the new study, ...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is alarmed by the threat to ground-based astronomy posed by proposals put forward by ...

Patches of the sun's surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can ...

It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice sheets and floating sea ice could accurately measure a disturbance in Earth's magnetic field. But that is just what ESA's CryoSat ...

When floods, coastal erosion or sea-level rise threaten settlements or infrastructure, European countries turn to managed retreat more often than previously assumed. Managed retreat refers to the ...

Timing is critical in diagnosing diseases such as cancer. Researchers within The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used a historically underappreciated ...

The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

Birds that live and breed in vegetated coastal areas, such as dunes and small islands, not only build nests but ...

The findings of a new paper show governance and preparedness rather than hazard magnitude determine whether avalanches become ...

Pesticides used in pet flea treatments occur widely in Welsh rivers and were detected in over three quarters of river water ...

Billions of mussels scorched and baby birds dropping from sweltering nests: North America's 2021 heat wave caused a cascade ...