Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

April's full moon, known as the Pink Moon, determines the dates of Passover and Easter. This year, it rises on April 1.

Endocannabinoids act "like a 'dimmer switch,' fine-tuning neural activity to maintain balance, or homeostasis," Ryan McLaughlin, co-director of the Cannabis Research Center and as ...

Trump's war in Iran is the embodiment of everything that's wrong with our dependence on fossil fuels — and it's highlighting just how vital the transition to renewables is.

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park hosts sand-dune fields that fill up with lagoons every wet season, but the reserve also has ...

Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its ...

A fast-spreading fungal disease has left the newly named Australian "zombie tree" unable to produce flowers, fruit or seeds, ...

Astronomers have detected small, ruby-like crystals embedded in Martian rocks, which may also hide sapphires created in the ...

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of ...

Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.