During some days in August, science takes center stage. The experts are surveying the little-known diversity of fungi found ...

One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new ...

Every cell relies on ribosomes, the molecular machines that read genetic instructions and use them to assemble proteins. A ...

The PISA study regularly assesses 15-year-olds' ability to understand and solve real-life problems in reading, mathematics ...

Every US$1 invested in tackling climate change and air pollution together can generate around US$15 in economic benefits, ...

A new study suggests that a period of intense fires and landscape upheaval in the ancient southern Levant may have helped ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant progenitor to a galaxy supercluster ever. The discovery ...

Researchers have developed a method for extrapolating sea surface temperatures from sparse data that is significantly more ...

From repairing damaged tissues to developing better implants, many medical developments depend on materials that can mimic ...

Across southern Europe, increasingly extreme heat, wildfire and intense rainfall are forcing planners to consider how one ...

Halley's Comet captures the imagination in a way that few other astronomical objects do. When it last made its approach ...

As large-scale disasters—including earthquakes, torrential rains, typhoons and wildfires—become increasingly frequent, ...