El Niños and La Niñas are the third-most dominant influences on Earth's climate, after the sun and the greenhouse effect. But ...

Do you ever see comments on social media that seem way off-topic but still manage to wrench the discussion around to divisive ...

Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island.

For decades, astronomers have assumed that the Martian surface froze solid around 3 billion years ago and has stayed that way ever since. If this were really the case, any liquid water would have long ...

People from different cultural backgrounds are tickled in remarkably similar ways. They laugh, resist and are usually tickled ...

Roads, dams and other infrastructure built to make life easier for people have unintentionally made survival harder for ...

A favorite toy or treat can become dangerous in an instant if it gets lodged in your pet's airway. Because choking is a ...

When a wound does not heal properly, it leaves a scar. Similarly, mutations—which are permanent changes to genetic code—are often the result of damaged DNA that has not been properly repaired.

For most healthy people, Cryptococcus is an unnoticed infection. The immune system walls it off in the lungs and keeps it dormant for life. But in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy, recovering ...

Combining drone data and machine learning can help cover more ground in monitoring forest soil health, University of Alberta research shows. The findings are published in the journal Forest Ecology ...

Vast tracts of many of Europe's largest rivers, including the Rhine, Rhone and Danube, have slowed to a trickle never before recorded in July, data from a European climate observatory showed Monday.

Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, including Dr. Zachary Birch-Price and professor Anthony Green, have developed a new family of engineered enzymes that can create several ...