Mistletoe is best known from winter traditions as a symbol of luck and affection. For trees, however, the hemiparasitic plant ...

Hurricane Polo swirled menacingly along Mexico's southern coast Thursday, triggering towering waves in a Pacific port city. Residents of Lazaro Cardenas hurriedly stacked sandbags along the shoreline ...

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In 2022, the eruption and collapse of an underwater volcano in Tonga caused a devastating tsunami that killed four people, ...

As climate change brings more extreme weather events, strengthening families before disasters strike can help protect ...

A new survey from the University of Exeter and the University of Surrey reveals broad public support for policies to protect ...

You might think the length of a day never varies—exactly 24 hours. You'd be wrong, at least if you count days in milliseconds ...

As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly embedded in work, government and everyday life, new research from ...

An analysis of almost 40,000 research funding review reports found that female researchers wrote longer, more positive assessments than their male counterparts and addressed the formal evaluation ...

In recent decades, astronomers have reconstructed a fairly complete scenario for planet formation, from minute dust motes ...

Young adults, not families, drove migration in Bronze Age communities. Using skeletal samples from archaeological sites in ...

A widely held belief that women have more emotional intelligence than men does not hold up under scrutiny, according to a ...