Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius – the fallback target of the Paris climate accord – is now ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

We found that from 2016 to 2021, there were significant increases in crevasse volume across fast-flowing sectors of the ...

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

A new non-opioid painkiller, suzetrigine, has just been approved by the US drug regulator, the FDA. It is the first ...

A new species of fungus straight out of a nightmare has been found lurking on the ceiling of an abandoned gunpowder storeroom ...

Numerous studies have shown that exercise lowers blood pressure, but the 2021 research suggests that "maintaining physical ...

The rings are regions of higher density, where the galactic material has been pushed together by the rippling shocks. The ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

Extreme heat will reach dangerous levels – even for younger people – across an area equivalent to the size of the United ...