'At some point we're going to have to react': How El Niño, climate change, and crime are pushing the Amazon rainforest over the brink
Live Science spoke with Amazon researcher Bernardo Flores about how El Niño could help drive Earth's largest tropical ra...
Nepal to use new flood study to claim millions from UN climate disaster fund
Image source, NurPhoto via Getty ImagesImage caption, Thousands of people are dead or missing after massive floods and l...
Scientists find youngest exoplanet on record — a 'newborn' named Elias
Astronomers have discovered the youngest exoplanet on record, and they spotted the "newborn" world hiding in old data ar...
Scientists Overhaul Giant Particle Collider in Search of Universe’s Hidden Building Blocks
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, will dismantle the Large Hadron Collider, which helped discover...
'The choir was a great lifter when the fields fell silent'
Image caption, Mervyn Kelso lost his whole herd to bovine TBByLouise CullenAgriculture and environment correspondent, BB...
Rare tree offspring given lifeline at Scottish botanic garden
Image source, Chris JamesImage caption, Logan Botanic Garden has been described as "Scotland's most exotic gar...
Space weather caused a 16-minute train delay in 1848: 'Our research has a hint of a detective story'
A storm sent a surge of current through telegraph wires that caused a train on one of Britain's early railway lines to b...
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
The battlefield now extends all the way to the moon, U.S. military's highest-ranking officer says
The battlefield that the U.S. military must prepare for and excel in now extends from the seafloor all the way out to th...
1,700-year-old fragment of the 'Odyssey' discovered between pages of Dutch library book
The fragment is from Book 12, when Zeus curses Odysseus' men for killing and eating Helios' sacred cattle.
Microscopic Videos That Show the Invisible Wonders Around Us
The winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition showcase the wiggly, feathery, undulating beauty of i...
Microscopic Videos That Show the Invisible Wonders Around Us
The winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition showcase the wiggly, feathery, undulating beauty of i...