A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

Scientists have cast doubt on the reliability of America's most celebrated rodent forecaster—whose apparent knack of predicting how long winter will last forms a hallowed tradition in the United ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

As insect populations decrease worldwide in what some have called an "insect apocalypse," biologists are desperate to determine how the six-legged creatures are responding to a warming world and to ...

An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be ...

New research reveals the surprising ways atmospheric winds influence ocean eddies, shaping the ocean's weather patterns in ...

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These ...

A carnation-like nanostructure could someday be used in bandages to promote wound healing. Researchers report in ACS Applied Bio Materials that laboratory tests of their nanoflower-coated dressings ...

Constructed wetlands do a good job in their early years of capturing carbon in the environment that contributes to climate change—but that ability does diminish with time as the wetlands mature, a new ...

Sound plays a significant and often poignant part of skateboarders' relationship with their sport, a new study published in ...

A team of engineers, physicists and computer specialists at Canadian company, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., has unveiled ...