About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, ...

Social technologies, digital tools that allow people to communicate and share content with each other online, have become a central way of communicating for many people worldwide. Yet the possible ...

Across South Africa, natural springs are more than sources of freshwater. Some are places of healing, spiritual cleansing and ...

The electronic properties of materials are typically determined by their structure under normal, undisturbed conditions, when ...

Ice sheets are fundamental components of the Earth system. Antarctica and Greenland, the two ice sheets currently on Earth, ...

Across Appalachia and the Rust Belt region, including throughout the city of Pittsburgh, former industrial sites are being ...

The malaria parasite is able to detect changes in its host's environment and respond by increasing the production of sexual ...

Cells rely on complex signaling networks in which different molecular pathways communicate with one another. Small GTPases ...

The first storm warning for the Miami area wasn't issued until only a few hours before the powerful cyclone made landfall ...

Stretching more than 200,000 square kilometers (77,000 square miles) across southern Australia, the vast, flat plains of the ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released LandScan Mosaic, a next-generation global population distribution dataset ...

The fight against climate change has a new, spiral-tusked ally: the narwhal. In a study published in Science Advances, ...