Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands ...

Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Friday that its Starship megarocket is scheduled to blast off on a new test flight next weekend ...

Hurricane Erin gained strength Friday as it churned in the Atlantic Ocean and bore down on the Caribbean, where it could ...

The pathway from climate change to violent conflict is not simple. There are the obvious immediate effects of global warming ...

How did life leap from simple microbial cells to the complex, structured cells that make up animals, plants, and fungi? A new ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously ...

The 66th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published in ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...

Himalayas, most people farm for a living. In the 1980s, they largely transitioned from subsistence-based to market-oriented ...