Sea ice levels in the Arctic Ocean are rapidly declining, thanks to global warming.

Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers.

A field glaciologist explains the changes scientists are now seeing.

When placed in a lens-and-mirror trap, a weakly absorbing material can capture light from nearly all directions.

Amoebae receive surprising support in defense against viruses: The bacteria they are infected with prevent them from being destroyed by giant viruses. A researc

Human-driven climate change has set in motion massive ice losses in Greenland that couldn’t be halted even if the world stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, according to a new study published Monday.

The CSIRO has called for boosts to virus research and vaccine manufacturing to better prepare Australia for future pandemics.

University of Cincinnati geologists reconstructed a massive landslide in Nevada that wiped out an area the size of a small city more than 5 million years ago.

Fast climatic shifts due to global warming coincided with high rates of morphological change in most reptiles.

Slime-coating slugs and the saliva in our mouths are two types of bodily fluids that contain mucus. A new study explores how this marvel of biology evolved.

Researchers have proved for the first time that corals’ fluorescent colors are intended to attract prey. For the first time, a recent study from Tel Aviv University, in association with the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and the Interuniversity Institut…

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are a promising next-generation solar power technology, but they suffer from dye aggregation on electrodes, which reduces charge carriers and the conversion efficiency. Fortunately, scientists have now found a simple way to …

This 1.9-kilometer wide asteroid, classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) will pass within 8.6 million kilometers of Earth, flying at 51120 KMPH!!.

Using new simulations, astrophysicists implemented simple conditions to model the feeding of a supermassive black hole and the organic formation of its jets and accretion disk. When the researchers ran the simulation, the simple conditions organically and une…

Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilised skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.

Male dolphins band together in intricate multi-order groups to coerce females to mate with them and keep them. It's mighty effective too.

Ten high school teachers spent a week at MIT in July designing and making Frankensteel, a self-healing material inspired by the villain in the Terminator 2 movie. Next up: they aim to recreate the calculations and experiments involved for their students back …

You’ve never seen the spiral-armed Messier 74 quite like this.

If any of the billions of T. rex that roamed the Earth in any given year more than 67 million years ago were alive to see this discourse, they probably have weighed in by eating the arguers with their banana-sized teeth.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched last November ahead of a year-long journey to crash into the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger one called Didymos.

Plants lengthen and bend to secure access to sunlight. Despite observing this phenomenon for centuries, scientists do not fully understand it. Now, scientists have discovered that two plant factors -- the protein PIF7 and the growth hormone auxin -- are the t…

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Claritas Fossae. The linear features (fossae) are graben, a tectonic feature created when blocks of material subside between paired faults.

The Quebec provincial election campaign has begun. We hear from Emilie Nicolas and Mireille Paquet about the issues and personalities shaping this campaign, and how the political landscape in the province has changed. Nicolas is a columnist at Le Devoir and t…