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Awareness about exposure, high-quality masks and air filters can help protect you from dangerous pollutants in smoke

A new study confirms that carbon dioxide plays a significant role in any climate change

Every one of these birds under human care is a rescue; it is illegal to breed and keep these birds otherwise

Models suggest that higher latitude crops will experience higher infection rates and a greater number of threats

Mollusks create these shiny gems, but that biological process could change as Earth’s waters warm

An archaeologist explores how our prowess in sport has deep roots in evolution

With large and easily tapped natural supplies, the United States became the world’s leading helium producer

Studies of body size and bite force show that the predators, from babies to adults, filled many niches in their environment

The 890-million-year-old relic predates periods of extreme cold and the planet’s second oxygenation spike

Designed and tested by Purdue University engineers, this new appliance would lengthen the shelf life of food on long missions

“We need to reintegrate Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and cultural and prescribed burning into our landscape,” Carolyn Smith s...

The plant may not have ears, but that doesn’t stop sound from causing serious damage to other structures

An instrument named “DESI” will chart up to 40 million galaxies, ten times more than any previous survey

This minute species now holds the coveted title of world's smallest moth

Ice cream's texture is the result of the same processes that govern concepts like forest recovery, rock formation and sub-zero survival in a...

A new lab experiment reveals pooches don’t pay humans back with a treat after the canines are fed

Videos show southern giant petrels killing Gough Island’s beautiful endangered seabirds

The asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous gave our mammalian ancestors, the therians, an edge over their mammalian competitors

Researchers in Mali have been working for decades on the treatment that's now in the final phase of clinical trials

Collecting DNA in waters worldwide can help scientists figure out which places are the most important for conservation

Researchers are using lidar to better understand the erosional forces that cause oceanfront cliffs to crumble

Ask a child to draw a scientist, and research says they’ll often draw an older, usually white, man, with wild hair, wearing a lab coat and g...

Great whites have returned to Cape Cod, and efforts are underway to help people coexist with them

The bird—also known as Manu-o-Kū—has excited ornithologists, its population growing within Honolulu, the busiest of Hawai'i's urban landscap...

The venomous spiders are nimble, secretive and dangerous