Spanish authorities said Saturday they are investigating five laboratories in an effort to find the source of an African ...

Disaster-hit Sri Lanka has unveiled a major compensation package to rebuild homes damaged by a deadly cyclone, even as the ...

If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island—a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica—the first ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

How much the planet warms with each ton of carbon dioxide remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but ...

What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...

Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in ...

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

Only 7% of Europe's original area of peatlands remain. What's more: their climate boundaries are shifting. An international ...

This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN's ATLAS experiment ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said ...