This summer, much of North China has endured widespread temperatures above 35°C. Even typically cooler, high-latitude summer ...

Subduction, a crucial geological process on Earth, may have begun hundreds of millions of years earlier than traditionally ...

Searching for life on Mars has been an explicit goal of the astrobiological community for decades. However, they have not ...

On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water ...

Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's like observing ...

Copper has emerged as an ally in the battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Copper sulfate liquids, for example, have ...

Glaciers carved the deep valleys of Banff, eroded Ontario to deposit the fertile soils of the Prairies, and continue to ...

Reducing the rising tide of political extremism—and violence—in the United States and beyond may require a rethinking of how ...

Adding crushed calcium carbonate—limestone—to agricultural fields can remove tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each ...

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to find strong evidence for a planet orbiting a star in the triple ...

Small grains researcher Juan David Arbelaez-Velez knows the secret to making perfect rice—and it's not about how you cook it.

As climate change and population growth place mounting pressure on global water resources, communities around the world are ...