The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

A metric that looks beyond height and weight to underlying biological markers of metabolic health is providing revised ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks.

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, ...

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high.

The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes, and aquifers depleting faster than nature can ...

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...

The je ne sais quoi that gives Black Ivory coffee its smooth, chocolatey flavor may lurk deep in the bowels of Earth's ...

Earth is currently under bombardment from one of the most powerful geomagnetic storm categories the Sun can unleash.

The temperature trends don't bode well for the penguins: colony locations are warming up four times faster than the average ...