Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands, is on the front lines of the climate crisis: nearly two-thirds of its population ...

In parallel, Japan has built a heavy-truck demonstrator with a 10-kilowatt-class laser for stopping small drones. Mitsubishi ...

Deep in the Swedish peat bog, archaeologists have recovered something remarkable: the 5,000-year-old remains of a faithful ...

Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...

This isn’t the first time the ocean has returned our laundry. We’ve had the “ Lego Spill” of ’97. Plastic dragons and ...

This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared two new oral antibiotics for use against gonorrhea: zoliflodacin ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.