In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry ...

Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, ...

A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior ...

When Amy posts a photograph of herself on Instagram, she knows what will attract attention. A picture of her in a bikini may ...

SpaceX's mammoth Starship rocket blasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time ...

Chinese astronomers report the detection of a peculiar optical transient event that occurred in the center of a dwarf galaxy.

Historians and archaeologists know that maize was a central food source and cultural symbol across the ancient Maya world, ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—the world's biggest fish—are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the ...

Modern research on secondary metabolites from microbes, plants and marine organisms has revealed a remarkable diversity of ...

People who receive information on social media play a greater role in the spread of misinformation than research has ...

Haonan Chen, a CSU associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his team have published research that ...

Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024. Because the last comprehensive analysis was published in 2017, the extent ...