After domesticating potatoes 10,000 years ago, the ancient people of the Andes evolved to have more copies of a key gene ...

Researchers say the Arctic Ocean crossed a biological tipping point in 2009, when nitrate levels in the water suddenly ...

A June update by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the coming weather event will be the ...

The Romans were the first to wear clog-style footwear to the baths to protect their feet from the hot floor and to better ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in ...

Google has applied for an experimental mosquito release permit to deploy millions of non-biting southern house mosquitoes ...

A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts that had colonized Ötzi's body shortly after his death 5,300 years ...

Northern lights are projected across the Northern U.S. and Europe tonight as Earth gets hit by a strong solar eruption.

JWST found a black hole hiding in a galaxy more than 10 billion light-years away from Earth, and used a cosmic magnifying ...

Daddy longlegs have been observed eating frogs in South America, suggesting that these arachnids may be predators of ...