For the second time in the past two weeks, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a prominent national report, has classified 100% of ...

Oceans shape everyday life in powerful ways. They cover 70% of the planet, carry 90% of global trade, and support millions of ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on ...

During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first ...

Mass shootings in white-majority neighborhoods received roughly twice the news coverage of mass shootings in neighborhoods ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

A new study has quantified, for the first time, how much heat stress beef cattle actually experience across South America—as ...

While a wealth of nutrient export models exists, a knowledge gap persists regarding how climate and land-use changes ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

When a protest by angry traders about what they see as the Islamic Republic's poor handling of the economy morphed into a ...