A new study of the Amazon rainforest has found the region is shifting toward a 'hypertropical' state as droughts become ...

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, reversing its spin, is weirdly textured, and contains an unusual state of ...

Not only that, it's among the first dinosaur eggs – or evidence of any dinosaurs, for that matter – found in the roughly ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

Tiny fragments of plastic are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, particularly through our food ...

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the ...

A curious and paradoxical intolerance for lactose across the South Asian subcontinent could help explain why the ability for ...

A large Swedish study reported a lower risk of dementia among middle-aged and older adults who consumed higher amounts of ...

The artificial sweetener aspartame can be found in everything from chewing gum to fizzy drinks and tabletop sweeteners.

Inexperienced drivers are more vulnerable to distraction from music. One study of 20- to 28-year-old drivers found ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

The H5 viruses are brutally lethal to birds – 9 million have died outright, and hundreds of millions have been culled to ...