A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

Cosmic dust trapped, or blocked, by Arctic ice allowed researchers to map 30,000 years of sea-ice history. Their findings ...

Intensifying floods are rapidly undermining global rice production, putting food security at risk for billions.

Feline dementia mirrors human Alzheimer’s, hinting that cats may help reveal how memory fades — and how it could be restored.

The findings, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, come from an analysis of 25 studies. The team compared neurometabolite levels, which are chemicals created during brain metabolism, ...

Researchers discovered that in a rare kidney cancer, RNA builds droplet-like hubs that act as growth control centers inside tumor cells. By engineering a molecular switch to dissolve these hubs, they ...

Parakeets form new friendships by slowly testing how close they can safely get to unfamiliar birds. This careful process ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

This achievement led to the identification of a previously unknown crystallization pathway in water and resulted in the discovery of a new ice phase. The newly recognized structure has been named Ice ...

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

New research has overturned decades of uncertainty by showing that Nanotyrannus was a fully grown predator, not a juvenile T. rex. For many years, paleontologists have debated whether the single skull ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.