The Arctic Ocean may have crossed a dangerous tipping point. Scientists say the rapid disappearance of sea ice is triggering ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of the Seychelles’ vanished crocodiles using DNA from historic museum specimens. The ...

A giant planet nearly 700 light-years away has a bizarre daily weather cycle where mineral clouds appear every morning and ...

A new brain imaging study has found no evidence of widespread brain inflammation in patients suffering from prolonged symptoms after COVID-19 infection. Instead, the most severe long COVID symptoms ...

Tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Scientists studying four ...

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of ...

Researchers are developing a futuristic alternative to LASIK that reshapes the eye without lasers or incisions. Using mild electrical pulses and platinum contact lenses, they temporarily soften the ...

Humanity may already be living far beyond what Earth can sustainably support, according to a sweeping new study analyzing more than 200 years of population and environmental data. Researchers found ...

For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes. Using a ...

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

Scientists uncovered evidence that human blood cells may trace their origins back to single-celled ancestors that lived 700 ...

Scientists at the University of Houston have shattered a long-standing superconductivity record, creating a material that can ...