The Western U.S. is experiencing periods of increasingly intense drought, and higher temperatures are exacerbating the issue by drawing even more moisture from plants and soils into the atmosphere.

Millions of Europeans will contemplate the sky in awe on Wednesday as a rare total solar eclipse crosses part of the continent and plunges a swath of Spain into eerie daytime darkness.

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On a perfect, crisp fall day with blue skies, scientists in yellow safety coats gather in the sprawling desert north of Reno. They watch as flames consume a burning bush and quickly spread through the ...

With extreme weather increasing around the world, scientists are working to help critical infrastructure, such as water management systems, adapt. On the U.S. West Coast, where both periods of ...

In the 1950s, the New World screwworm cost U.S. livestock producers tens of millions of dollars a year, reaching $50 million ...

After a heavy rain, rivers often turn brown with sediment, sand, silt and soil washed from the landscape that play a vital role in shaping rivers.

New research introduces a contactless way to see how mirror-image materials respond differently to circularly polarized light ...

In 1968, the American biochemist and geneticist Marshall Nirenberg and his colleagues won the Nobel Prize in physiology or ...

Egyptian blue, considered the world's earliest synthetic pigment, was prized for its stable blue hues and served as a common ...

A dangerous cocktail of tectonic positioning, loose earth and shoddy construction contributed to the unprecedented damage caused by Venezuela's twin earthquakes, experts say. Jennire Garcia's home in ...

The Roman emperor Julian (332–363 CE) called bread the food that "among us is thought to be the most nourishing." ...