The extent of Arctic sea ice has been monitored by satellites since 1978, before that we have only patchy observations that ...

The majority of countries appeared keen to strike a robust deal and build a legal framework to address plastic pollution.

The Fountain of the Lions in the Alhambra has amazed people for centuries. It’s a beautiful, ornamental water feature sitting ...

However, it is possible to see the stars from the lunar surface using optical equipment, and they actually appear a little ...

E arlier this year, a little gray cat called Rayne Beau (pronounced rainbow) embarked on an epic adventure, traveling 1,448 ...

The "Birmingham Blade" has been designed by EvoPhase and KwikFab to address a substantial problem for green energy production ...

Antarctica’s Lake Enigma has become slightly less enigmatic. It was once assumed the faraway lake was frozen solid from top ...

I n a matter of hours, a small asteroid will burn over the Siberian skies. This is only the 11th time that an asteroid has ...

A typical EEG begins with a technician taking painstaking measurements of the patient’s scalp, pinpointing the precise spots ...

I n 2003, scientists described a new family of frogs – the first time such a discovery had been made among the anurans in ...

The idea was that the gravitational wave background is uniform; there are supermassive black holes merging in so many ...

When it comes to their size, elf owls live up to the diminutive stature of their fictional namesakes (at least if we discount ...