In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country ...

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

Analysis of Australia's highest-volume pesticide use has revealed that the majority of products widely used in Australian ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the ...

A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a ...

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, ...

Around the world, in nearly every delta, people can adapt to rising sea levels using today's technological capabilities, ...

The structure of the plant communities that grow on the thawing permafrost in the Arctic is changing, with grasses displacing ...

From 3D movie screens to augmented-reality devices, many modern technologies rely on our ability to manipulate light. Doing ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

For decades, the massive stone circles of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights were considered a singular, mysterious ...