A parasite carried by billions of people worldwide often causes harmful infections during pregnancy and in immunocompromised ...

Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds known as CLIPPIRs (Cullinan-like, Large, ...

AI companies increasingly want to move their operations into space. Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to launch over a million ...

Africa is home to around 70% of the world's burned area—the total area of land scorched by wildfires each year—making it the ...

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook the Andes region of Peru, killing at least six people, injuring more than 30 and displacing ...

University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid evolutionary bursts and that these bursts frequently coincided with ...

Greece, which was spared the record heat that ravaged most of Europe in June, is finally bracing for its first heat wave of ...

A floating research station resembling a giant aluminum igloo on Sunday set out from France to begin a long-term mission in ...

The Great Salt Lake is separated by a 20-mile (32-kilometer) causeway into a super-salty north arm and a less-salty south arm, with each hosting distinct communities of extremophiles. These organisms ...

A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, focused ...

Scientists have developed a new way to predict the strength of the sun's next activity cycle up to seven years before it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 7,000-year-old fish traps in the mountains of southern Norway, indicating that ...