While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues ...

Around the world, climate change is being tackled, not just in parliaments and global summits, but also in villages and ...

On hot summer days, few things are more refreshing than a dip in the pool. But have you ever wondered if the pool is as clean ...

The La Venta fossil site in Colombia is home to a rich fossil record, yielding a particularly diverse set of vertebrate ...

Inspired by a hitchhiking fish that uses a specialized suction organ to latch onto sharks and other marine animals, ...

In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

Quantum confinement is a physical effect that occurs when the size of a material—usually a semiconductor or conductor—is ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating ...

Almost half of all Australian properties are at risk of bushfire, while 17,500 face risk of coastal erosion. By 2030, more ...

Decades of gold mining at Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has left a toxic legacy: 237,000 tons of arsenic ...