Across hundreds of miles of Alaska’s North Slope, long-frozen ground is thawing. As it does, naturally occurring metals ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

In parallel, Japan has built a heavy-truck demonstrator with a 10-kilowatt-class laser for stopping small drones. Mitsubishi ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands, is on the front lines of the climate crisis: nearly two-thirds of its population ...

This isn’t the first time the ocean has returned our laundry. We’ve had the “ Lego Spill” of ’97. Plastic dragons and ...

Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...

This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared two new oral antibiotics for use against gonorrhea: zoliflodacin ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

From Nordic lullabies to Grimm’s fairytales, the wolf has always haunted the edges of human history. Even today, wolves would ...

By compressing and expanding carbon dioxide, this unusual battery solves one of renewable energy’s toughest reliability ...

Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead ...