Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass ...

Restitution debates—the questions of whether a cultural object should be returned from a museum or other collection to a ...

A swarm of small earthquakes within the Karoo Basin in South Africa has revealed a critically stressed fault that could be ...

For the first time, an international research team has directly measured the effect of cosmic radiation in a cold molecular ...

Before the opening bell ever rings on a company's initial public offerings, some of the executives may already be sitting on ...

An international research team led by the University of Bremen has detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Earth's atmosphere ...

UCLA researchers have developed a mineral sunscreen formulation that significantly reduces the white, chalky cast that keeps many people from wearing sun protection daily. For decades, dermatologists ...

For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh grazing fields. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking project at the University of ...

California's most devastating wildfire—the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 and destroyed nearly 19,000 structures—forced ...

Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year. For these cell organelles to work properly, they require certain minerals—particularly ions of the metals ...

Mantle plumes beneath volcanic hotspots, like Hawaii, Iceland, and the Galapagos, seem to be anchored into a large structure within the core-mantle boundary (CMB). A new study, published in Science ...

Four astronauts preparing for an extended stay in space have started quarantine as they get ready for their next big mission.