Long-distance migration along Peru's Pacific coast began at least 800 years ago, centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire and much earlier than previously thought, a new international study ...

A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover ...

A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

The arrival of a potentially powerful El Niño weather system this year could devastate coral reefs around the world already weakened by back-to-back rounds of bleaching, scientists warn.

India's power producers have set a record for electricity generation as swaths of the world's most populous nation swelters in an intense heat wave, the Ministry of Power said.

Forecasters say a potentially "super" El Niño is rapidly taking shape in the Pacific—but whether it evolves into a ...

For 20 years, Millicent Turay has supported her family by collecting mangrove oysters near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, ...

In many underwater ecosystems, seagrass meadows act as a food source, a safe haven, and an ecological lynchpin. But until now, very little was known about how these plants reproduce—critical ...

There's a new T. rex in the fossil record, only this one terrorized the ancient seas. New research led by scientists at the ...

Researchers have demonstrated that different types of paper industry sludge, typically treated as a low-value waste, can be ...

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute and ...

Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, even light, can escape. Einstein's theory of ...