Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool galaxy that appear to contain almost no stars. The clouds, ...

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not ...

New research has found that tree species diversity can play a crucial role in protecting forests from the growing threat of ...

Here's a novel idea for countering the painful side effects of chemotherapy: Beforehand, take the hallucinogenic drug found ...

Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three meters (10 feet) long, so strange they were sold as ...

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

Lakes may look like picturesque stopping points along a river or stream, but they can have a big influence on what happens to ...

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

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

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

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

A three-year research collaboration between Florida State University's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the ...