While previous studies suggested Venus might have once been covered in oceans, new research has found the opposite: Venus has likely...

About three years ago, some beachgoers in north-eastern Brazil made a curious discovery when they stumbled across a crate-like object...

In Chile, a scientist is testing "metal-eating" bacteria she hopes could help clean up the country's highly polluting mining industry.

A new method improves the extraction and separation of rare earth elements—a group of 17 elements critical for technologies such as...

A Northwestern University research team has developed a versatile composite fabric that can deactivate both biological threats, such as...

The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss.

German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of asymmetric...

Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of...

The US Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company..

Three Laureates share this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena.

Our primate ancestors used their tails for balance as they navigated treetops, but around 25 million years ago, tailless apes started...

A Raytheon-built hypersonic cruise missile built under the Defense Department’s classified Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapons Concept...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) today announced Katalin Karikó, Ph.D. of BioNTech Pharmaceuticals and the University of Pennsylvania, and...

Global water technology company, Xylem congratulated a team of hackathon participants that have come up with a new way to respond to...

With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country's archaeological remains face a grim future even if the extremist Islamic group...

Conservationists aboard the Ocean Warrior have documented how a Chinese armada of nearly 300 Chinese vessels that have sailed halfway...

Black holes are getting weirder by the day. When scientists first confirmed the behemoths existed back in the 1970s, we thought they were...

more recent -- and some contested -- discoveries have suggested humans might have been in North America 23,000 years ago.

A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30...

The European Union (EU) has announced plans to require the smartphone industry to adopt a uniform charging cord for mobile devices...

Wildfires in California this summer emitted twice as much carbon dioxide compared to last summer — and far more than any other summer in...

In a new clinical trial looking at the efficacy of a third Moderna vaccine dose for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in people living...

Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region...

The carnivorous theropod that thrived in and is known as one of the most dominant of the Late Cretaceous period, the Tyrannosaurus rex...