Earlier this month, Wellington declared a local state of emergency, including evacuation orders, when forecast powerful ...

Australia's Great Southern Reef is built not by coral but by seaweed. The seaweed forests on these rocky reefs stretch more ...

A new study has revealed an unexpected link between solar storms and the flux of high-energy cosmic rays arriving at Earth.

When does a child begin to reason? When do they develop self-control? Are some mental abilities present from birth, while ...

New research led by the University of New England's Dr. Timothy Chapman has uncovered the trigger behind slow earthquakes, ...

Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years.

In addition to humans, some species of primates and birds have demonstrated under experimental conditions their ability to ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered a critical, underrecognized trade-off in global environmental ...

The first findings from a major survey of more than 800 young people ages 11–17 about social media were revealed to local ...

Red-tailed hawks can compensate for feather loss during molt by subtly changing their wing and tail movements, according to a ...

In the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes in northern Venezuela, which by Friday had killed more than 500 people and left ...

A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31), the Milky Way's large neighboring ...