A fresh look at the Trifid Nebula shows a dynamic region where powerful stellar winds continue to spark new stars into life.

City birds flee sooner when a woman walks toward them than when a man does. This discovery reveals to scientists how people ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

Extreme weather from climate change could expose more than one-third of land animal habitats to multiple disasters at the ...

High-tech camera system makes it possible for humans to see colors in the way animals do, adding vivid new perspective to the ...

Monk parakeets in big colonies developed voice accents and made a greater variety of sounds, possibly to handle communal ...

Global warming will expand the areas where animal viruses are detected, increasing risks in regions outside the tropics.

A chemical found in water, NDMA, may cause more cancer in children than in adults, according to a study warning of early-life ...

A long-forgotten drug shows promise for children with a rare disease, offering hope for treatment where none previously ...

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

A chaotic laser beam manages to organize itself, allowing for detailed observation of the brain and accelerating advances in ...

One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres (galls) near an ant nest in his backyard.