A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its ...

Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long ...

Japan's rainy season ended at the earliest date on record in the country's western regions, meteorologists said Friday, as ...

To make advances in using microbes to sustainably produce materials, it is necessary to find new molecular tools, or ...

As dangerously high temperatures sweep across parts of the United States and southern Europe this week, emergency workers are racing to mitigate the public health risk of heatstroke.

Astronomers have uncovered a vast cloud of energetic particles—a "mini halo"—surrounding one of the most distant galaxy ...

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

When an extreme weather event occurs, the probability or risk of other events can often increase, leading to what researchers ...

Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in ...

You probably know the feeling. It's been a few days since you last washed your hair, and it feels greasy, heavy, and tangled.

New Jerseyans continue to give a somewhat split assessment on the direction of the Garden State, and pocketbook issues top ...