The reliable manipulation of the speed at which light travels through objects could have valuable implications for the ...

For many just a tasty delicacy, the oyster may actually be the hero the world needs to fight environmental degradation—and ...

France is hosting world leaders this week to confront what the United Nations calls a global "emergency" in the oceans—but ...

Chagas disease is often called a silent killer because many people don't realize they have it until complications from the ...

Within the animal kingdom, a naturally produced molecule known as itaconate serves a prominent role in the immune system as a ...

Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of ...

A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia. A team at ...

As part of its resource management reforms, the government will soon allow "super-sized granny flats" to be built without ...