Indonesia plans to build a "giant sea wall," more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java's north coast from rising sea levels.

A study of one of the world's longest-running disaster warning systems—desert locust monitoring—finds surveillance limits ...

Educators and researchers around the world, especially in countries with limited resources, need cost-effective, scalable ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...

In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...

When people think about wildfires, they usually think about flames, smoke and evacuations. However, for many communities, ...

In the early 1990s, crime-loving television audiences could choose mainly between cozy, fictional detective series such as ...

For most of the 20th century, the model of human origins was a tree: with the trunk dividing into branches, and then twigs.

Living bacteria embedded in coatings could clean wastewater, capture carbon and generate biofuels—but only if they survive ...

Honeybees are among the widely studied insects, due to their sophisticated, hierarchical social organization and their ...

The science academies of G7 member countries have identified international space governance as a pressing issue for the G7 ...

The latest discoveries by an international research team, which includes Academy Research Fellow Ferhat Kaya from the ...