Anxiety among earth and climate scientists has been mounting for weeks. The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who called human-driven climate change a hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more climate-change ...

It's a cold, damp fall day in London. But in a windowless basement laboratory, it feels like the tropics. It's hot and humid.

With their distinctive snouts and vertical posture, seahorses are some of the most unique creatures in the ocean. And with new genetic research, scientists are getting important insight into what made them that way. In a new report published in Nature, ...

The issue of the potential political interference with science has risen quickly to the top of many minds, with scientists demonstrating in the streets of San Francisco outside a major scientific meeting of the American Geophysical Union, and some ...

Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in collaboration with a team of other scientists taking measurements both in the field and in the lab, have quantified the scale of such releases and ...

Most volcanic eruptions on Earth happen in a hidden, dark place: deep underwater. Scientists rarely detect these outbursts on the sea floor, but last year, they caught a seamount eruption in the act.

Marine scientists have discovered that two species of dolphin in the waters off Bangladesh are genetically distinct from those in other regions of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, a finding that supports a growing body of evidence that the Bay of ...

So OCO-2 scientists were never expecting to record the emissions of individual point sources, like volcanoes or coal-fired power plants.

If you've ever had a nightmare about an asteroid or other large extraterrestrial object crashing into the Earth, you probably imagined it hitting solid ground.

But scientists believe that female orchid mantises evolved into beautiful flower forms for a more sinister reason: to hunt prey.

Scientists produce functional heart pacemaker cells. Date: December 14, 2016; Source: University Health Network; Summary: Scientists have developed the first functional pacemaker cells from human stem cells, paving the way for alternate, biological ...

Or at least that's the case for Cary Pint, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University. Pint and a team of researchers recently created a small pill-bottle-sized battery using steel, brass, and a common household chemical ...

Saliva and blood from bats in the central and southern parts of the country were analysed by scientists over the past six years.

Scientists have sniffed out the reason why some people think their pee has a pungent smell after eating asparagus while others do not - it is all down to genes.