Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep sat in ...

A highly pathogenic avian influenza was found in a herd of dairy cattle in Wisconsin, the latest in an ongoing outbreak of ...

A swarm of at least six earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 2.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological ...

During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of ...

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about 163,000 ...

A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven ...

An international team of scientists have identified nine new species of butterflies using a combination of geographical, ...

Tropical storms such as typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are Earth's most powerful weather systems. Born over warm oceans, ...

The cells of all animals—including humans—are characterized by their ability to adhere particularly well to surfaces in their ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and KTH have developed a computational method that can reveal how cells change and ...

A never-before-seen image of individual oxygen atoms dissolved in water has been captured.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...