Space urgently needs special legal protection similar to that given to land, sea and atmosphere to protect its fragile environment, argues a team of scientists.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley have conducted experiments that measured the physical limits for the existence of liquid water in icy extraterrestrial worlds.
Your immune system’s ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease.
A novel algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle.
A years-long research debate over which animal is the rightful mother of giant prehistoric eggs in Australia has been resolved. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers and their international colleagues demonstrated that they can only belong to the last of a unique duck-like line of megafauna known as the 'Demon Ducks of Doom'.
Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or, at most, 2 degrees Celsius.
The snow that falls in the mountains is good for more than just skiing, snowshoeing and breathtaking vistas.
For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and regenerate limbs, octopuses often suffer a tragic death.
Scientists once thought that post-starburst galaxies scattered all of their gas and dust — the fuel required for creating new stars — in violent bursts of energy, and with extraordinary speed.
Scientists are not alarmed at discovering this geologic feature, which does not trigger earthquakes but may regulate friction in the fault zone
Joan Casey lived through frequent wildfire-season power outages when she lived in northern California.
Many scientists had once hypothesized that the first apes to evolve in Africa more than 20 million years ago ate primarily fruit and lived within the thick, closed canopy of a nearly continent-wide forest ecosystem.
In the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the plight of southern resident orcas.
Research on the impacts of climate change often considers its effects on people separately from impacts on ecosystems.
The red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are striking. Scientists suspect it is a frozen mixture of water and salts, but its chemical signature is mysterious because it matches no known substance on Earth.
Volcanoes draw plenty of attention when they erupt.
Researchers have discovered that light — in the form of a laser — can trigger a form of magnetism in a normally nonmagnetic material.
Clouds come in myriad shapes, sizes and types, which control their effects on climate. New
The amygdala is a small structure deep in the brain important for interpreting the social and emotional meaning of sensory input – from recognizing emotion in faces to interpreting fearful images that inform us about potential dangers in our surroundings.
In the Southern Hemisphere, the ice cover around Antarctica gradually expands from March to October each year