Southeast Asia has spent decades trying to tackle haze from forest fires. Yet every few years, the region finds itself ...

Squinting through my binoculars, I scanned the dense branches of a black spruce, trying my best to catch a glimpse of the ...

Since the 1950s, the Tibetan Plateau has experienced pronounced warming and wetting. However, an overall shift toward wetter ...

One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new ...

Every cell relies on ribosomes, the molecular machines that read genetic instructions and use them to assemble proteins. A ...

The PISA study regularly assesses 15-year-olds' ability to understand and solve real-life problems in reading, mathematics ...

During some days in August, science takes center stage. The experts are surveying the little-known diversity of fungi found ...

Every US$1 invested in tackling climate change and air pollution together can generate around US$15 in economic benefits, ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don't have had theirs ejected during a galactic collision.

A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant progenitor to a galaxy supercluster ever. The discovery ...

Researchers have developed a method for extrapolating sea surface temperatures from sparse data that is significantly more ...