Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new ...

Hurricane Erin gained strength Friday as it churned in the Atlantic Ocean and bore down on the Caribbean, where it could ...

Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Friday that its Starship megarocket is scheduled to blast off on a new test flight next weekend ...

The pathway from climate change to violent conflict is not simple. There are the obvious immediate effects of global warming ...

Himalayas, most people farm for a living. In the 1980s, they largely transitioned from subsistence-based to market-oriented ...

Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

Humans adapt to floods through private measures, early warning systems, emergency preparedness and other solutions. A new ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from ...