Wealthy individuals have a higher carbon footprint. A new study published in Nature Climate Change quantifies the climate ...

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

Forests without top predators (such as tigers) risk being overgrazed by large herbivore prey, depleting vegetation carbon ...

Record fossil fuel production kept planet-heating methane emissions near historic highs last year, the International Energy ...

In research published in New Phytologist, investigators reveal that tomato ripening is regulated by the same mechanism that ...

In research published in Advanced Science, investigators describe their ability to reconstruct 3D facial images from DNA data ...

A portable device that can instantly detect dangerous street drugs at extremely low concentrations has been developed at the ...

What makes us care about others? Scientists studying empathy have found that people are more likely to choose to empathize ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...

Drywood termites, the ones that hide in wooden structures, molt about seven times in their lives. UC Riverside researchers ...

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it ...