On a hot afternoon in California wine country, the sun can do more than warm a vineyard. It can scorch it. When temperatures ...

For years, remote work has been viewed as one of the most important drivers of employee satisfaction. New research suggests ...

Ozone pollution has worsened in much of the continental United States over the past decade, fueled by wildfires and the ...

The most distant, nearly invisible dormant black hole has been detected and "weighed" by an international team of astronomers ...

For the first time, mighty ocean waves generated in the Southern Ocean have been accurately measured all the way to the tiny ...

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

Forest restoration can help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity, but the satellite-based techniques used to ...

Researchers in Japan have created some of the world's smallest semiconducting nanotubes, structures 100,000 times thinner ...

Fish that split their lives between fresh and salt water often face obstacles getting back and forth. Dams and roads fracture ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

Understanding the nature of human cooperation" arrives at a clear result: 69% of study participants chose to cooperate. At ...

Mangrove forests, once considered one of the world's most threatened coastal ecosystems, are showing signs of recovery ...