More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers this week announced that it is a new species of sea slug.

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment looked at the current US National Flood Insurance Program, and ...

The daisy world model describes a hypothetical planet that self-regulates, maintaining a delicate balance involving its ...

Researchers from the University of Montpellier, the University of Zurich, Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, and other ...

This week, researchers formulated a new method to calculate the probability of generating intelligent life in the universe.

Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful ...

A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on Saturday was intensifying and could have a "potentially catastrophic" ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious ...

No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers ...

The idea of maturing oocytes in the ovary to produce offspring has been implemented in various ways. One such method, ovarian ...

Scientists can determine the mass of subatomic particles that are built from quarks by looking at the particles' energy and ...

In a recent study, researchers have developed a compound metalens that enables distortion-free imaging. The study, published ...