At the top and bottom of the planet, the seasons arrive on a schedule all their own. Satellite data from a mission measuring ...

Decades of selective breeding and intensive agricultural practices have reshaped cattle genetics—often at the expense of ...

New research from The University of Manchester has found that urban canals can cool their immediate surroundings by more than 2°C during heat waves.

Western Europe experienced its hottest June–July on record as climate change fuels a historic summer of heat, drought and ...

An international research team partly led by the University of Ottawa reports that Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland calved a 76.4 km² (29.5 square miles) ice island on Aug. 4, 2026, marking ...

We call them "man's best friend," and the evidence supports it. Dogs have been found buried alongside humans in graves dating ...

In a world first, scientists led by a team from Stanford University have created 16 viable viruses that do not exist in nature and were designed by AI. Their experiment, which is published in Science, ...

Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated, sharper displays for electronic ...

Boston College scientists have determined that a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27 billion years old and derived ...

Snakes are highly modified lizards, with more than 4,000 living species today. The origin of snakes has long been one of ...

Hong Kong's weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 36.9°C (98°F) on Sunday as Typhoon Dolphin swept warm air ...

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic synthetic particles, many systems in nature and the laboratory ...