The war in Ukraine has just edged up another notch. It has not been going well for Ukraine in recent months, and this week ...

We all know what words we might shout out when we stub a toe or touch something hot. For those of us who speak English, it's ...

As this year's United Nations climate summit, COP 29, comes to an end, world leaders are uncertain about the future of climate change progress given the result of the latest U.S. presidential election ...

There is a seemingly endless stream of news headlines about plummeting birth rates. Many have alarmist narratives about the ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar explosion ever observed.

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and ...

Have you ever wondered if your plants were dry and dehydrated, or if you're not watering them enough? Farmers and green-fingered enthusiasts alike may soon have a way to find this out in real time.

A sweeping study of three decades of lawsuits has revealed both the effectiveness but also the underuse of civil litigation ...

Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to ...

Pollutants known as "contaminants of emerging concern" or chemicals that could potentially harm human health and have been ...

While death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are ...