A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Japan and caused small tsunami waves but no apparent damage Friday, days after ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

An extraordinary botanical spectacle is drawing crowds in Rio de Janeiro: several talipot palm trees, planted more than six ...

Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

With science increasingly coming under attack, using humor as a way to get people interested in scientific research is more ...

The man tracking chimpanzee movements in a rainforest is required to follow the primates wherever they go—except up in the ...

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers.

Experts at UCL have raised concerns about online misinformation after new research found that over half of pupils have ...

There has been massive global interest in the new social media legislation introduced in Australia aimed at protecting ...

On many days, Apple Street looks like a picture postcard of New England. Oaks shade a time-worn stone wall, boat sheds loll ...

Most of the media coverage of the federal government's recent cuts in federal research money for universities has focused on ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...