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Has El Niño reached the West Coast? You might think it has. After all, the ocean off Southern and Central California is ...

A study on Roman law by the Carlos III University of Madrid analyzes the regulations and complex imperial logistics governing ...

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth's biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur, offering ...

After an eight-year journey, a spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes began the monthslong, high-risk approach to ...

Thick smog has blanketed parts of Indonesia as the vast archipelago battles fires that have burned large swaths of Borneo and ...

Rice University researchers have used a magnetically levitated particle to search for ultraheavy dark matter, extending the ...

An orangutan mother and her baby, threatened by wildfires encroaching on their habitat in Indonesia, were rescued earlier ...

Beneath the Arctic Ocean is an orchestra featuring natural and human composers, from cracking sea ice and whistling beluga ...

School suspensions are associated with a complex combination of socioeconomic disadvantage, special educational needs, peer ...

The human body and its gut microbiome produce thousands of small molecules that shape how the body functions—influencing ...

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...