In the coastal forests of a tropical Japanese island near Okinawa grows an inconspicuous plant that is easy to mistake for a mushroom. It is a non-green parasite that feeds on the roots of other ...
From genome editing to quantum computing, scientific progress is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, yet public faith in ...
Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method to reveal the collective motion of electrons in one of the most elusive states of matter: the ...
A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people, damaging hundreds of buildings and leaving many trapped under debris while their loved ones and ...
El Niños and La Niñas are the third-most dominant influences on Earth's climate, after the sun and the greenhouse effect. But ...
Every monsoon, India's rivers turn brown. To most of us, that color simply means muddy water. But hidden within it is the ...
Jackie, the bald eagle who became an internet sensation and a symbol of the species' recovery in California, died Monday after being treated for an illness at a veterinary facility, her caretakers ...
In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people ...
Prediction is the goal and test of all science, one might argue. Meteorologists have been curious about the inherent limits of weather forecasting ever since the dawn of numerical weather prediction ...
Industrial-scale illegal fishing continues to undermine ocean sustainability, coastal livelihoods and global seafood ...
Climate change is largely to blame for water scarcity. The low water levels in European rivers this summer speak volumes in ...
Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island.