The International Space Station is falling. Right now, as you read this, the massive laboratory is losing altitude every day, sinking through the thin residual atmosphere at the top of Earth’s sky ...

California has declared a statewide El Niño emergency to pre-position sandbags, rock and fast-track coastal permits, after ...

One container off the Ever Laurel held 28,800 plastic bath toys with a known release date and position — an unfunded drift ...

Microscopy of Blood Falls deposits revealed amorphous iron-rich nanospheres formed as dissolved iron in ancient subglacial ...

Restoring a ravaged landscape takes decades, but prairie plants prove stubbornly persistent once given the chance to return.

Eleven years of surveys on one family-owned field suggest species-rich meadow can return to former farmland without a seed packet, though the researchers cannot yet explain how several of its rarer ...

What had changed was that Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the two neighbouring West African countries that together grow about 60 ...

A portable ultrasound machine, hauled into a village on the eastern arm of Sulawesi, is the instrument at the center of this ...

Your nervous system may be sabotaging your sleep with an ancient survival reflex that mistakes relaxation for danger.

Engineers use a simple pipe to prevent a lake from releasing the invisible killer that suffocated an entire region in 1986.

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Somewhere in a Pennsylvania woodlot, a squirrel is committing fraud. It scrapes out a hole, shoves its face into the dirt, pats the soil back down and ...