On May 20, 2013, the bulb went dark. The committee’s webcam page records an interruption of nine hours and 45 minutes. The ...

Eleven years of surveys on one family-owned field suggest species-rich meadow can return to former farmland without a seed packet, though the researchers cannot yet explain how several of its rarer ...

Bathymetric data showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin. Credit: NOAA National Ocean Service. The longest mountain range on Earth is not the Andes, the Rockies or the ...

Barry Marshall’s self-experiment showed that a stomach bacterium could cause gastritis in a healthy person. The evidence linking that bacterium to ulcers came later, through studies of what happened ...

What had changed was that Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the two neighbouring West African countries that together grow about 60 ...

California has declared a statewide El Niño emergency to pre-position sandbags, rock and fast-track coastal permits, after ...

Your nervous system may be sabotaging your sleep with an ancient survival reflex that mistakes relaxation for danger.

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One container off the Ever Laurel held 28,800 plastic bath toys with a known release date and position — an unfunded drift ...

A viral scientific breakthrough promised to solve wind energy's waste problem—but the gummy bears were never the real goal, ...

Microscopy of Blood Falls deposits revealed amorphous iron-rich nanospheres formed as dissolved iron in ancient subglacial ...

Restoring a ravaged landscape takes decades, but prairie plants prove stubbornly persistent once given the chance to return.