New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon ...

Russia's space launch site in Kazakhstan was damaged on Thursday after a Soyuz mission took off with Russian cosmonauts and ...

The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a ...

The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient ...

Optical lattice clocks are devices that measure the passing of time via the frequency of light that is absorbed or emitted by ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Quantum thermal machines are devices that leverage quantum mechanical effects to convert energy into useful work or cooling, ...