It took around 480,000 trucks to haul away 4.8 million metric tons (5.3 million tons) of rubble across western Jamaica after ...

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

Between September and November, these baby birds, also known as fledglings, learn to fly and eventually leave the nest. You ...

Few insects have a more gruesome lifestyle than Darwin wasps. Rather than simply hunting other animals, these parasitic wasps lay their eggs on or inside living hosts, including caterpillars, beetles ...

Traditional lenses and mirrors focus light using curved surfaces. Metasurfaces can achieve similar functions with a flat layer of nanoscale structures that locally control the phase of light.

Microplastics have been found in our bodies and the food we eat—and even in remote environments around the world, including ...

The extreme heat waves we have seen over the last few years may only serve as a preview of what is to come as a result of ...

Throughout the drug development process, which can take a decade or more, tens of thousands of chemical compounds are ...

For the first time, an international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and the United States has ...

Forest areas can act both as carbon sinks and as vital habitats for thousands of species—but not necessarily at the same time. This has important implications for how Europe should manage its forests, ...

Where oceanic crust subducts beneath continental crust, belts of volcanoes known as continental arcs can form. Located around ...

Europe's meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, has released the first image from the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) on ...