Deep in Ecuador's Waorani territory, scientists discovered a 20-foot, 1,100-pound snake that turned out to be an entirely new ...

Picture a structure taller than the Eiffel Tower, floating freely in open ocean 43 miles from the nearest coastline. No seabed anchor holds it upright in the way you’d expect. It rides the swell, ...

From high above Antarctica, a satellite was scanning a sheet of blinding white ice. Then it caught something that did not ...

School buses are trading diesel for heavy-duty batteries. They are quieter, cleaner, and really efficient. But these yellow giants are no longer just delivering kids. They have another capability.

The thermometer outside the White House pushed toward 102 degrees on the Fourth of July. Washington had just logged its hottest Independence Day on record. More than 140 million people were sweltering ...

Divers surveying 69 offshore wind turbines off Taiwan found 86 fish species living on the steel foundations — none had ever ...

Picture a farmer in Kenya waking to find a whole season of crops flattened overnight. The culprit was not a storm or a thief, but the largest animal on land. A single elephant can erase a family’s ...

Scientists discovered that wild salmon are worth $324 million in a single Alaskan watershed — not for their flesh, but for ...

Picture the most famous prison in America, alone on a rock in San Francisco Bay. Cold water surrounds it, and the mainland glitters just over a mile away. For most of its life, every light on this ...

The Chinese mitten crab is spreading through US waterways, and the hidden biological superpower driving its invasion is ...

Honey has sweetened food and dressed wounds for thousands of years. But a research team has now taken it somewhere unexpected: into a bioreactor holding living human skin cells, where they exposed ...

Africa is splitting in two. Scientists just found the crust beneath Kenya and Ethiopia is thinner than anyone knew, and a new ...