South America was a frightening place during the Miocene. More than 10 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of the ...

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

Humans love dogs, but petting them can leave some people sneezing and wheezing. About 15% of the world's population lives ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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