Bitter Arctic air plunged more than half the United States into a deep freeze Tuesday, including New Orleans, where the heaviest snow in decades brought dangerous conditions to the famously festive ...

Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be "majestic" but, since they're not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado's highest court said Tuesday.

Scotland must do more to help hydropower facilities maximize their output and prevent negative impacts on wildlife in the ...

A research team led by Dr. Tetsuya Muramoto from the Faculty of Science at Toho University has demonstrated the mechanisms by which periodic chemical signal frequencies in cells regulate gene ...

Although fertilizers are essential for global food production, they also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. The war in ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), commonly known as China's "artificial sun," has achieved a ...

Topological insulators (TIs) are among the hottest topics in condensed matter physics today. They're a bit strange: Their ...

In the United States, the most well-known skin-penetrating parasitic worm, called a nematode, is the hookworm. But globally, ...

Urbanization is rapidly transforming landscapes worldwide, becoming a key driver of global biodiversity loss. It often ...

Researchers at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine and the UF Health Cancer Center have identified a ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...