An offshore canyon that’s twice as deep as the Grand Canyon recently turned up 40 potential new-to-science species when ...

How do you get a paper retracted? Hint: it doesn’t usually start with a strongly worded opinion piece from a senior political ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

P olar bears have become something of an icon for the Arctic. The world’s largest land predators, they are big, they are ...

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Micherre Fox, a 31-year-old from Manhattan, New York, recently unearthed the 2.3-carat diamond – about the size of a pea – at ...

A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early ...

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They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 ...

A deeply bizarre group of dwarf crocodiles with fiery orange skin lurk in the caves of Central Africa. Immersed in the ...

Thanks to 15 years of high-precision radio observation with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), scientists have realized ...

Claims that environmental protections are obstacles to the space industry do not match evidence of what happens around ...