Invasive rats on tropical islands are creating winners and losers among the tiny underwater animals near the bottom of the ...

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that's a bilingual text, like the Rosetta ...

Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth's Van Allen ...

Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of ...

Quasars, distant cores of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, are among the most luminous objects in the universe.

Light typically interacts with a material the same way whether it enters through the front or the back—like polarized ...

"Dead stars" known as white dwarfs have already shown the potential to help us better understand how planetary systems, ...

Previous apps for identifying animal calls regularly hit practical limits: Without a stable internet connection, real-time ...

The United Nations has fast-tracked a vast antelope migration path in South Sudan onto its List of World Heritage in Danger, ...

Encouraging people to contribute to a common good can have a surprising drawback: a risk that rewards become concentrated ...

A new study by the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research at the University of Oxford reveals that industrial ...

A study of more than 350,000 students in England has found that teachers predict higher A-Level grades for girls than boys ...