Intensive farming is one of the biggest factors contributing to biodiversity loss. While prior research has focused primarily ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak ...

Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas ...

Glitter is festive and fun—a favorite for decorations, makeup and art projects. But while it may look harmless, beautiful ...

Clouds form upon existing particles in the atmosphere and extreme weather events like flooding and snowstorms are related to ...

In recent years, Canadians have been subjected to both severe wildfire smoke and extreme heat events, as evidenced by the ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

The African wild dog is one of Africa's most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human ...

For years, the Endangered Species Act has been interpreted in a way that preserves the environments where endangered and ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...