Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

The way we organize our cities and regions creates problems everywhere. We're facing difficult and polluting drives to work, ...

By studying tomato varieties that produce fruit in exceptionally hot growing seasons, biologists at Brown University ...

Nations will meet next week to hammer out agreements on climate action at the 29th UN climate change conference, COP 29, held ...

Firefighters grappling with a blaze that has destroyed at least 130 homes in California said Friday they had made progress in ...

The sea of mud and stagnant water submerging Spanish towns more than 10 days after the country's worst floods in decades has ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometers (more than five miles) ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ...

For the first time, researchers have observed how bromoform rearranges its atoms in less than a trillionth of a second after ...

UC Santa Cruz chemists have discovered a new way to produce biodiesel from waste oil that both simplifies the process and ...