Our sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But we've known for a long time ...

When a team of researchers recorded a low thundering underneath the surface of the Hudson River, they thought they were ...

From the revived corpse of Frankenstein's monster to the disembodied hand, "Thing," in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue ...

Researchers at TU/e have demonstrated that energy transfer without loss via light or heat can occur over much greater distances than previously thought possible thanks to vibrations in microscopic ...

Johanna Harvey, an assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology at the University of Rhode Island, has described bird flu ...

People are exposed to thousands of chemicals every day—through the products they use, the food they eat and the environments they live in—but only a fraction of those chemicals have been fully tested ...

Persistent methane emissions from sectors such as agriculture and growing debates over the credibility of carbon offsets are ...

A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of ...

The old "monkey see, monkey do" adage may rest on some neuroscientific evidence, finds a new Yale study. To examine how the primate brain facilitates cooperative behavior among individuals during ...

Birds have all kinds of fancy decorations for attracting mates—male peacocks have a fan of feathers accented with shimmering ...

Internal changes due to the sun's "active biorhythm" have become increasingly "skin-deep" over the past four solar activity ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...