In a handful of dust grains that traveled to Earth from the Kuiper Belt, traces remain of long-lost water bearing the ...

Fluoride does a world of good for your teeth, but its inclusion in drinking water is not without controversy. Are those ...

We're used to thinking of gravity in the context of large masses – the whirl of planets, the inexorable pull of a black hole.

On the deep outer slope of a tropical reef in the middle of the Indian Ocean, there lives a coral colony 1.5 kilometers (almost 1 mile, or 100 buses parked behind each other) long, and potentially ...

A catastrophic landslide in Greenland led to a deadly tsunami, and based on the shape of two other large unstable slopes in the area, scientists are concerned it could happen again.

We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but your cat may have some complaints about the service you're delivering.

We all know the rules. If, for whatever reason, by whatever means, you travel back in time, you absolutely must not find and kill your own grandfather before he has had a chance to procreate. Doing so ...

A team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney wanted to know how early those effects might show up in an ordinary ...

Humans have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years, for spiritual, cultural, or personal reasons. Long before we were covering ourselves in ironic stick'n'pokes, butterfly tramp stamps, or ...

"By integrating observations from land to the deep sea, this study provides one of the most comprehensive ecosystem ...

In the new research, led by astrobiologist Samantha Gilbert-Janizek at the University of Washington, scientists wound back ...

There are many things about modern life we take for granted – perhaps none more so than the vast electrical grids that power ...