A long-term study compiled from field work on four continents over five decades has unearthed new species of kangaroo paws ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

The Ullmann reaction is one of the oldest reactions in organometallic chemistry. It is one of the most widely used ...

Powerful pulses of groundwater flow up from beneath Lakes Michigan and Huron, which together form one of the largest ...

The number of whales getting tangled up in fishing nets, line, buoys and other miscellaneous rope off the coasts of the ...

Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

The Philippines evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and confirmed at least three deaths Friday as a severe tropical ...

South Asia's annual monsoon rains sustain more than a billion people, but climate change is making them increasingly erratic ...

Merriam-Webster on Thursday announced a major overhaul of its popular "Collegiate" dictionary. The company has added more ...

After humans started using the Baltic Sea, its diatom populations started to experience accelerated—and, so far, irreversible—changes in genetic composition and diversity, according a recent study led ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...