A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, damaging buildings and homes, and ...

On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't ...

A new pathway has opened for controlling the rotation direction of light simply by changing how molecules are arranged, ...

Madison researchers recognize a new species of baobab tree, Adansonia bozy, unique to Madagascar, according to a study ...

As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality ...

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's ...

The Huashan rock art landscape in southern China, close to the border with Vietnam, is a remarkable UNESCO World Heritage ...

Salt and sugar from the sea can rise as far as the free troposphere, thereby influencing both cloud formation and the Arctic ...

Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a red sky, hear a ferocious blast of wind and watch as tree ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland and their collaborators have cloned a gene that makes wheat resistant to feeding by Hessian fly larvae and demonstrated its direct interaction with a protein ...

According to a new study led by researchers from Brazil and Germany, the main system that transports heat from one end of the Atlantic Ocean to the other may undergo sudden changes in intensity driven ...

An analysis of 103 European cities' climate-neutral plans for 2030 (including 22 capital cities) shows that municipalities ...