Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather ...

A rare blanket of heavy snow fell on parts of northeastern Turkey on Friday as other parts of the country battled a growing ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

University of Sydney researchers have harnessed human-made lightning to develop a more efficient method of generating ammonia ...

Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...

A polar air mass has brought record low temperatures to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, causing at least 15 deaths and forcing ...