Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being ...

Across South Africa, natural springs are more than sources of freshwater. Some are places of healing, spiritual cleansing and ...

The malaria parasite is able to detect changes in its host's environment and respond by increasing the production of sexual ...

The first storm warning for the Miami area wasn't issued until only a few hours before the powerful cyclone made landfall just south of downtown, leaving residents with little time to prepare for what ...

The electronic properties of materials are typically determined by their structure under normal, undisturbed conditions, when ...

Cells rely on complex signaling networks in which different molecular pathways communicate with one another. Small GTPases ...

Stretching more than 200,000 square kilometers (77,000 square miles) across southern Australia, the vast, flat plains of the Nullarbor mark one of the world's largest regions of limestone. It formed ...

Ice sheets are fundamental components of the Earth system. Antarctica and Greenland, the two ice sheets currently on Earth, ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released LandScan Mosaic, a next-generation global population distribution dataset that estimates where people are by modeling how buildings are used and ...

The fight against climate change has a new, spiral-tusked ally: the narwhal. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers equipped six of the toothed whales, sometimes called "unicorns of the ...

A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years.

Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn't expecting a fully grown humpback whale.