Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Painting city roofs white could lower the temperature in London dramatically on the hottest days, new research suggests.

At Harvard and beyond, we’re overlooking the need for exposure to STEM among students in non-STEM fields, with serious ...

A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in ...

The now-extinct species of mammoth lived from the Middle Pleistocene era until its extinction 4,000 years ago.

New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

Andy Tomkins and his team at Monash University propose that Earth once had rings lasting ten million years, affecting its ...

Indiana University researchers have uncovered key insights into the dangerous phenomenon of “river avulsion,” offering a way ...

Future physicians are spending more time on divisive political topics and less time on the medical science on which individual and public health depend.

One of the first studies to examine science performance finds that elementary students' scores have rebounded. Not so in ...

By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending ...

Thousands of potentially toxic plastic chemicals can migrate from food processing and packaging into the human body, a new ...