Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to ...

Blue damselfish, with their striking blue hue, are easy to spot, even along Okinawa's heavily urbanized coastlines. But while ...

Can literature foster greater acceptance of LGBT people among elementary school students? This is the core question behind a ...

Isaias strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane on Thursday as it headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, prompting mandatory evacuations and disrupting oil and gas ...

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from ...

A prehistoric cold case near Drumheller reveals either a small-time raptor scavenged on an apex predator, or a baby ...

A new paper published in the journal Phytotaxa describes a new species in the genus Victoria, the Colombian giant water lily ...

For decades, scientists have believed that a protein called interferon tau (IFNT) is indispensable for pregnancy in cattle.

A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern ...

Across mammals, larger species typically have longer lifespans, ranging from only a couple of years for mice to almost 200 ...

In high-latitude coastal areas, Arctic amplification means that temperatures are rising faster than the global average. This ...

Nitrogen is essential for life. It's needed to build proteins, DNA and many other components of cells. Although nitrogen gas ...