A study in Earth's Future, the first of its kind to be conducted at the national level for the contiguous United States, reveals that 84% of the country's coastal wetlands are gradually inundating as ...

Ports are typically highly polluted environments, which makes it imperative to find new ways to clean them up. Here, scientists studied five species of common Mediterranean sea sponges to see whether ...

Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans selectively ...

University of Warwick-led astronomers discover the cosmic digestive system of a black hole – showing that even when black holes appear faint, they’re not simply bottomless pits University of ...

A new study reports that omega-3 fatty acids are highest in milk labeled as organic grass-fed and lowest in conventionally-produced milk. Other fatty acids varied by dairy production method and season ...

Adult black-legged kittiwakes tend to their chicks at a breeding colony on Middleton Island, Alaska, where researchers experimentally raised the energy cost of flight in some birds during breeding.

WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...

A 1/20-scale tunnel support loading test apparatus used to investigate how deformation-accommodating tunnel supports behave under simulated squeezing-ground pressure. The ductile support model, made ...

University of Maine graduate student Quazeem Tiamiyu makes wood fiber foam insulation he designed as a bio-based alternative to replace polyurethane foam in conventional beverage coolers. For beverage ...

UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of long-ago interbreeding among modern humans and at least four other archaic human ...