Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands, is on the front lines of the climate crisis: nearly two-thirds of its population ...

Deep in the Swedish peat bog, archaeologists have recovered something remarkable: the 5,000-year-old remains of a faithful ...

In parallel, Japan has built a heavy-truck demonstrator with a 10-kilowatt-class laser for stopping small drones. Mitsubishi ...

This isn’t the first time the ocean has returned our laundry. We’ve had the “ Lego Spill” of ’97. Plastic dragons and ...

Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...

This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared two new oral antibiotics for use against gonorrhea: zoliflodacin ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

This search has led a team of researchers to an unlikely candidate—the humble carob pulp, a neglected food by-product. Their ...

The Apennine brown bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, exists nowhere else on Earth. Genetic evidence shows that this population ...