New research shows microbes in our cities are evolving to resist the very cleaners we use to eliminate them. It also ...

Climate change, along with rapid urbanization and deforestation, turbocharged floods in Nepal that killed more than 240 ...

Five Pacific nations on Thursday plotted how to prosecute a pivotal UN court case that aims to hold climate-polluting ...

Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world's first to crack a ...

Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a ...

Lifeguards declared Sydney's famed Bondi beach and several other strands closed Thursday, as more mysterious black "tar ball" ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars ...

In an era where viral outbreaks can escalate into global pandemics with alarming speed, the ability to quickly develop new ...

Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides is commonly prefaced by the phrase, "not if, but when ...

On October 16, 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin's Royal ...

In a study published in Nature, a team has uncovered new new details about the long association between humans and our ...

Among its other notable achievements and puzzles, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a larger number of bright ...