On a hot afternoon in California wine country, the sun can do more than warm a vineyard. It can scorch it. When temperatures ...

Ozone pollution has worsened in much of the continental United States over the past decade, fueled by wildfires and the ...

Researchers in Japan have created some of the world's smallest semiconducting nanotubes, structures 100,000 times thinner ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable ...

Understanding the nature of human cooperation" arrives at a clear result: 69% of study participants chose to cooperate. At ...

The most distant, nearly invisible dormant black hole has been detected and "weighed" by an international team of astronomers ...

Mangrove forests, once considered one of the world's most threatened coastal ecosystems, are showing signs of recovery ...

Newly described aquatic insects, belonging to the genus Hydropsyche, are helping close substantial knowledge gaps regarding ...

For years, remote work has been viewed as one of the most important drivers of employee satisfaction. New research suggests ...

Fish that split their lives between fresh and salt water often face obstacles getting back and forth. Dams and roads fracture ...

For the first time, mighty ocean waves generated in the Southern Ocean have been accurately measured all the way to the tiny ...

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...