When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...

When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating as much ...

The ocean beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus lies under kilometers of ice, but some of its contents do reach the surface. Jets ...

When someone is badly injured, doctors urgently need two facts: the patient's blood type, so that a transfusion is safe, and ...

With about 30 visual pigments, compared to just three in humans, mantis shrimp possess a visual system that remains a mystery ...

Astronomers using China's FAST radio telescope have discovered a compact cloud of hydrogen with no visible stars or galaxy ...

The strong El Niño currently under way in the Pacific Ocean raises the specter of marine heat waves and coral bleaching once ...

Poor access to health care, limited local influence over research priorities and an unequal distribution of scientific ...

New research from Michigan State University finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and ...

Alzheimer's disease is best known for its effects on memory and cognition, but the disease also involves changes in how brain ...

A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California ...

Every time a tissue grows or renews itself, cells must divide inside an already crowded environment. That creates a ...