Every summer, millions of people spray themselves with DEET to keep mosquitoes away. But new research suggests mosquitoes may ...

More than 1,000 years ago, Panama elites were buried together with translucent green stones long suspected to be emeralds.

On the moon, the lack of atmosphere and accompanying features such as biological activity, oxygen-rich air, flowing water and ...

When researchers survey wildlife in a lake, forest, or other habitat, they rarely capture every species present—some are simply too rare or elusive to detect. A new study published in the May issue of ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered that in collectives of moving fire ants, rippling "waves" of density and activity are ...

Tire rubber contains antioxidant chemicals, most notably 6PPD and DPPD, that are released into the air as tiny particles ...

Get set for a rare blue micromoon this weekend—a blue moon that's also the most distant and smallest-looking full moon of the ...

Local authority inspectors who issue licenses to dog breeders need clearer guidance and better support so they can more ...

Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously recognized. Their work is published in the journal ...

An individual's dominance over another determines priority access to resources such as food or mating partners, and thus reproductive success. However, the rank within the clan can be calculated using ...

New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when paleontologists previously thought there were ...

In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold ...