Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found ...

A research team led by Professor Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in ...

By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...

If we want to dismiss something as irrelevant, we'd say that it's "as boring as watching the grass grow." And yet ...

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered ...

Researchers have traced the journey of a plastic bottle cap recovered near the waters of southern Japan by combining data ...

They have been our meat and our messengers, a source of fertilizer and a religious symbol: while pigeons are now mostly ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a novel mechanism used by the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea to evade ...

More than 14,000 people in Taiwan have fled their homes, and many shops remain closed, as a typhoon pounding Japan's remote ...

A "widespread and significant" heat wave is predicted to bring oppressive temperatures to drought-hit western U.S. states ...

Japan's experimental reusable rocket took off and safely landed in a first test flight Saturday as the country seeks to ...