A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become pandemic pathogens. The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Japan on Sunday successfully launched a climate change monitoring satellite on its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Children's play is essential for their cognitive, physical and social development. But in cities, spaces to play are usually ...

Authorities across Southern Europe urged people to seek shelter Sunday and protect the most vulnerable as punishing ...

Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 45 people in just a few days since the start of the monsoon season, ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

This week, biologists discovered a new cellular organelle that's like "a new recycling center within the cell." Wild-growing ...

Researchers are merging multidisciplinary expertise with AI tools to document, reconstruct and preserve Europe's historical ...

When astronauts make the long journey to Mars in the not-so-distant future, communication with mission control will be ...

However, Australian rules football appears to be defying this trend—the number of community umpires surpassed 20,000 for the ...

The biggest environmental problems for commercial plantation forestry in New Zealand's steep hill country are discharges of ...