How a 40-year project helped save little terns
Image source, Shaun Whitmore/BBCImage caption, Little tern chicks are camouflaged among the sand and pebbles on Norfolk ...
UK bakes in 35C highs as heatwave to continue next week
Image source, EPA/ShutterstockByBBC WeatherPublished24 minutes agoThe UK is set to bake in another day of 35C highs, wit...
New York Sues Companies Over ‘Forever Chemicals’
The lawsuit claims that the companies, including 3M and DuPont, contaminated the environment and engaged in fraud by wit...
Wally Funk, trailblazing pilot and astronaut, passes away at 87
Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation and aerospace, has pas...
Malaria had nearly been eliminated around a giant dam in the Amazon — but then it came roaring back. Experts just discovered why.
A 15-year study suggests that long-term malaria control may depend as much on protecting environments as it does on sust...
Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot
A rare coin from the reign of Magnus Barefoot — sometimes called Norway's last Viking king, was mistaken for a button be...
Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Omar Yaghi Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute
Omar Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley, will head an initiative to apply artificial intelligence to the di...
Advanced Recycling Hits a Rough Patch
In the past weeks, two sites in the United States have halted operations.
Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever seen, and it shines with the light of a trillion suns
Using the ESA's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of black hole-powered quasars in th...
This Star Just Ate a Planet, and It’s Not Done Yet
A star 1,300 light-years away appears to have just consumed one world and is gearing up for seconds.
Joseph Fraumeni, 93, Dies; Helped Discover Genetic Link to Cancer
Considered the founder of molecular epidemiology, he worked with Frederick P. Li to identify a hereditary disorder that ...
'800 seconds for a sick visit': Some factors driving antibiotic resistance have nothing to do with biology, says medical sociologist Julia Szymczak
Doctors' decisions around antibiotics aren't as logical as you might assume; they can be skewed by emotional and social ...