Two plants that cause neurotoxicity and paralysis in the tiniest doses are also known to counter pain, malaria, cancer and ...

Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the Danube, Prime Minister ...

A team of Brazilian researchers discovered the first direct evidence that goethite—the mineral responsible for the brown color of soils—can withstand extreme pressures and temperatures all the way to ...

Our sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow.

Right now, no one knows exactly how much ice is on the moon or where it is. Satellites can scan the lunar surface from orbit, ...

Facing wind and cold, with only half as much oxygen to breathe as in the valley, a German-Turkish research team surveyed the ...

The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved 100-million-year-old beetle fossil that provides a rare glimpse into ...

The UK is bouncing from one type of extreme weather to another this year. This is climate whiplash. Caused by changes in the fast-moving body of air high in the atmosphere called the jet stream, ...

The human genome contains more than 20,000 genes. However, at any given time and in a given cell, only a fraction are active.

Climate change, land-use change and socioeconomic pressures are turning wildfires from a primarily ecological process into a ...

Adorning the walls of San Ildefonso College in Mexico City is artist Diego Rivera's masterpiece, rendered in fresco and gold ...