In June 2021, a deadly heat wave pushed temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Spokane, Washington, a northern city near the Idaho ...

Animals often evolve to have certain characteristics that help them escape predators more effectively. Some of these ...

An international research team led by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) and the Joint FAO/IAEA Center of Nuclear ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on ...

A 26-year study at the Arid Recovery Reserve reveals how removing invasive predators like cats and foxes triggers a dramatic ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications reveals how the way tree species are arranged in a forest can help optimize ...

Cities across the U.S. are increasingly turning to murals as tools for placemaking, cultural expression and neighborhood ...

The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

In the early 2000s, golden eagles soared once again over the hills of Donegal in northwest Ireland, for the first time in ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by ...