The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in seabirds in two Australian states. But don't be fooled by the name: This ...

Europe's deadly heat wave pushed east Sunday, with hundreds of millions still sweltering across the continent despite ...

It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens ...

Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation have developed an injectable hydrogel, a water-based gel ...

A new study debunks a recent claim that astronomers may have detected a lunar-mass primordial black hole. In a reanalysis of ...

Closing wounds, burns and deep cuts isn't enough to kick-start healing. A wound needs a clean environment, free of bacterial ...

The study, by researchers Chase Foster (King's College London) and Jeffry Frieden (Columbia University), analyzed 134 ...

Human-driven climate change significantly intensified the retreat of one of the most important glaciers in Antarctica during the 20th century. The Pine Island Glacier, which drains a large part of the ...

For decades, scientists have searched for a clear link between the sun's explosive storms and the weather that occurs on ...

Some periods in Earth's history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...

Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named ...

True to its name, Swift is designed to pivot quickly to capture late-breaking astronomical events such as gamma ray bursts ...