Faced with a terminal lung cancer diagnosis and a financially precarious future for his family, the mild-mannered high school ...

They placed a hamster wheel in the wild to see whether mice would use it as they do in captivity. Not only did the wild mice ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

Some ecologists even refer to our current epoch as the “Pyrocene,” acknowledging how fire has altered the environment. But ...

H5N1 avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has long ceased to be just a problem for birds. Since its arrival in the United States in 2014, the virus has aggressively expanded its territory, ...

Despite objections and doubts, these big cities are showing that approaches to reduce pollution can and do work.

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Researchers in South Korea have designed a polymer composite that keeps its structure even near 1,000 °C flames, potentially ...

The boy’s burial is as striking as his injuries. Hundreds of pierced shells formed a headdress. Ivory pendants and carved antlers accompanied him. A long flint blade—likely a prestige object—rested in ...

Space is a toxic cocktail of radiation and weightlessness that is hostile to terrestrial biology. As missions stretch from ...

In a coordinated experiment that stretched across borders and rat lifetimes, researchers in South Korea and Japan found no ...

Huge, dark pillars of stone rise from the dirt. They are perfectly hexagonal. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder like a ...