The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is mostly concerned with where to look for technosignatures from another ...

A huge coral colony stretching more than 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) along the outer reef of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical objects that could have formed directly from dense clumps of matter in the very early ...

Want to fly to the moon and help build a permanent lunar base? NASA is accepting applications for a new astronaut class that ...

Tropical ecosystems are famous for their teeming, exuberant diversity. In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from ...

An academic abstract, a blog post and a public outreach article all place different demands on the writer. Readers' prior ...

Armed with dozens of motion-sensing cameras, William Grooms spent this past summer documenting wildlife across Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. It was his first field season collecting ...

There are at least 14 million insect species on Earth, and they play highly diverse roles in sustaining the natural world.

Private retirement savings are an increasingly important topic in public debate. One popular idea is to phrase savings reminders in one of two ways: either you emphasize what someone stands to lose if ...

In 2009, researchers working in the Liang Bua cave on Flores Island came across a leg bone. The 190,000–120,000-year-old fossil was identified as a bird bone and set aside. Like many bird bones before ...