Megafauna paleoburrows in Brazil, discovered by geologists like Amilcar Adamy and Heinrich Frank, are extensive tunnels ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. New clues in Earth’s northernmost ...

Other species produce tears, but ours is the only one that scientists believe consistently cries not just to lubricate and protect the eyeballs, but also to express emotion — like after a ...

Floridians traveling to Cuba account for all of the 90 Oropouche, or sloth fever, cases reported in the state, but researchers are trying to determine whether the mosquito-borne illness could spread ...

Nearly all the world’s countries pledged to strive to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius in the Paris Agreement, which scientists said would prevent cascading and worsening impacts ...

So we are bound to see those records being broken," he said. The scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in which the planet is more than 1.5C hotter than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial ...

Barton is a geomicrobiologist studying microbes that dwell in some of the most extreme environments on Earth – and one of the scientists that followed Stone's footsteps into the Sierra Juárez ...

When Donald Trump was first elected to the US presidency in 2016, Nature advised scientists to constructively engage with Trump. We said that the incoming president’s contrary approach to ...

They are all the subjects of breakthroughs made possible by citizen scientists. Members of the public have long engaged in scientific pursuits — they were recording locust outbreaks in China ...

He also helped break a color barrier in science. By Adam Nossiter Warren M. Washington, a scientist who helped invent one of the first computer models of the earth’s atmosphere, paving the way ...

Crew biologist Anushree Srivastava collecting lichens near the Mars Desert Research Station while wearing a simulated spacesuit, an important part of analog space missions at this research site.

But he was also an outstanding scientist. Sagan propelled science forward in at least three important ways. He produced notable results and insights described in over 600 scientific papers.