Many plastic products are designed to be used only once, yet the material itself lasts for years. But a new strategy is ...

A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters ...

Every evening, as they move from place to place through the forest, chimpanzees stop to build a nest—most often in a tree—to sleep in. Using a selection of branches, leaves and twigs, they create ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley's comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.

Solar radio bursts are intrinsically linked to the motion of their emitting source through the coronal and heliospheric ...

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) has been attracting millions of fans every year since it was launched back in 1956. At the same time, it represents a unique opportunity for research. Almost no other ...

On a fateful day 210 million years ago, two crocodile cousins about the size of jackals stood side-by-side amid the low ferns ...

Gold digging is often seen as a female behavior focused on exploiting wealthier partners for material gain, but science ...

Scientists at the Université de Montréal's affiliated Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) have identified a new ...

Exoplanet science and the search for life beyond Earth continue to advance at break-neck speeds, with the number of confirmed exoplanets by NASA rapidly approaching 6,300, with 223 of those exoplanets ...

As climate change accelerates and global temperatures continue to rise, a new randomized clinical trial provides compelling ...

Cornell researchers have discovered that a lethal variant of feline coronavirus, previously thought to be limited to a devastating 2023 outbreak in Cyprus that killed thousands of cats, has in fact ...