About 1 in 3 people worldwide have been infected with a microscopic parasite called Toxoplasma gondii—or simply "toxo"—which ...

A new international study involving scientists from the University of Aberdeen has revealed a critical blind spot in global ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with Wismut GmbH and scientists from the University ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star as part of the Next ...

Imagine living in a home that you could simply pick up and move when extreme weather strikes. Instead of bricks and mortar, ...

Stars like our sun are formed from the collapse of stellar objects called prestellar cores, cold and dense concentrations of ...

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died. She was 87. Funk died Wednesday at ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday moved to loosen truck pollution regulations put in place by his ...

A joint research group from Tohoku University, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University and the Japan Fine Ceramics Center has developed a thermal catalyst that exhibits high carbon ...

As sea levels rise and coastlines erode, Australia's legal system is struggling to keep up. Longstanding assumptions about who owns the coast—and who should pay when it disappears—are now at the ...

Steep hillsides and mountainsides in many regions worldwide are often covered in characteristic step-like patterns, also known as terracettes. These repeating landforms have fascinated scientists for ...