Severe storms swept through the US states of Missouri and Kentucky, leaving at least 21 people dead, laying waste to local ...

The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by ...

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

When a molecule absorbs light, it undergoes a whirlwind of quantum-mechanical transformations. Electrons jump between energy ...

The moon's nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside ...

This week, paleontologists reported finding new details in an Archaeopteryx fossil via CT scanning and UV light exposure.

With its golden sand and blue waters, the beachfront in central Israel looks much like any other stretch of Mediterranean ...

Researchers at the University of Seville have analyzed interdependencies between fiscal and monetary policies and economic ...

A Wisconsin angler fishing in the fog this week discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat submerged in the waters of Lake ...

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown ...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, scientists have long worried that mountain species are on an "extinction ...