How much the planet warms with each ton of carbon dioxide remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN's ATLAS experiment ...

In a recent study, researcher Dr. Hui Zhou and his colleagues conducted a genetic analysis of the genomes of individuals ...

Only 7% of Europe's original area of peatlands remain. What's more: their climate boundaries are shifting. An international ...

A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ...

A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language ...

Billions of alkaline-loving microbes could offer a new way to protect nuclear waste buried deep underground. This approach ...

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

It is used in imaging processes and also shows potential for cancer therapy. However, it does not occur naturally and must be ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...