But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

Veronika the cow uses a brush as a tool to scratch herself, revealing rare problem-solving skills and expanding what we know ...

From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

The rockhead poacher is a little fish with a big pit in its head. The divot may be like a drum, making sound that rises above ...

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

Nicola Dell, a computer scientist studying the role of technology in intimate partner violence, cofounded the Center to End ...