Critically endangered Sumatran elephants are being pushed closer to the brink as wildfires raze vast swaths of their habitat ...

SpaceX announced Tuesday that it was planning to send its flagship rocket, Starship, into orbit, a key step in its project to ...

The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, a remarkable revelation after ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have developed a way to unravel changing weather patterns on distant worlds. Using ...

Two-thirds of a century after Jane Goodall observed "David Greybeard" break off a twig to fashion a fishing rod for termites, ...

A new national study reveals the widespread reach of violence across the United States, finding that more than half of U.S.

The way a product is labeled can change how consumers think about it. "No added sugar" or "99% fat-free" can make food sound ...

Light is traditionally described by properties such as wavelength, amplitude, phase and polarization. Advances in optics have ...

Neurons in humans and other mammals express many exceptionally long genes, ranging from more than 100 kbp to more than 2 Mbp, ...

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't ...

A new prehistoric animal species from Tanzania dating to around 240 million years ago, during the Triassic period, has been ...

In the hills of northwestern Morocco, overlooking the river that gives the site its name, research at Oued Beht is bringing ...