Firefighters battling a wildfire in southern Spain that killed 12 people began to contain the blaze Saturday as the ...

Typhoon Bavi was downgraded to a severe tropical storm Sunday after making landfall in eastern China, where authorities had ...

Hovering over the volcano, a buzzing drone pauses in front of a laser beam on the crater's edge as researchers test whether ...

Rideshare and delivery platforms operate in an unusually fluid labor market. Drivers can log off, switch apps or stop working ...

More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole ...

Virtual fences could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and more efficient while improving animal welfare ...

Researchers have traced the journey of a plastic bottle cap recovered near the waters of southern Japan by combining data ...

The molecular machinery that normally builds proteins inside cells has now taken on a new role as a "switch." A research team ...

Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, ...

By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...