Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area ...

The more we learn about orcas, the more remarkable they are. These giant dolphins are the ocean's true apex predator, preying ...

An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most ...

Pet-keeping is often promoted for the benefits it brings humans. A close association with another animal can provide us with ...

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...

A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to ...

A pioneering research lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has achieved another milestone using light-driven ...

Most people who separate their plastic waste for recycling assume the bulk of it will in fact be recycled. But current ...

Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much ...

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

From Spain to Italy, protests are breaking out against mass tourism. Activists stopped tour buses, rolled suitcases down the ...