All living toothed whales rely upon echoes of their own calls to navigate and hunt underwater, a skill that works best in conjunction with high-freque...
New research from North Carolina State University finds that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely ended about 3.5 billion years a...
New research suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both. Accor...
Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds. Camp Centu...
Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to th...
Despite reported differences in appearance and behavior, DNA evidence finds that Namibian desert elephants share the same DNA as African savanna eleph...
Mantis shrimp, often brightly colored and fiercely aggressive sea creatures with outsized strength, use the ultraviolet reflectance of their color spo...
As climate changes and wildfires get larger, hotter and more frequent, how should public lands in the American West be managed to protect endangered c...
New research has found methylmercury -- a potent neurotoxin -- in sea ice in the Southern Ocean. Published today in the journal Nature Microbiology, t...
In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world - neutrons, electrons, photons - either one at a time or in...