Birds are known for their distinctive plumage that helps them attract mates during the breeding season. For some birds, the ...

El Nino is here and will quickly develop into a strong event between July and September, fueling the likelihood of extreme ...

Europe is still taking stock of a powerful heat wave in late June, but experts are already confident it ranks among the worst ...

Costa Rican scientists may have discovered a new species of ghost shark in Pacific waters near Cabo Blanco and Cano Island.

Yeast has been growing in the guts of a frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have ...

Throughout human ecological history, we have played a variety of roles within ecosystems around the world. In this so-called ...

As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world's oldest living culture, humanity's newest technology has yet ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has developed a room-temperature single-photon source built ...

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, a team of researchers led by Dr. Wang Yu from the Shenzhen Institutes ...

By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than 8 million deaths around ...

Diseases spread by insects in the Brazilian Amazon are not randomly distributed but form distinct regional patterns linked to ...

Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes ...