One of Athens' crowning jewels is the Parthenon, a classical temple on the Acropolis that overlooks the Greek capital.

Ecologists are collecting more data than ever before, but many still lack confidence in the quantitative skills needed to ...

A new species of snake that feeds exclusively on birds' eggs has been discovered in the Harenna Forest in Ethiopia, one of ...

Two are better than one when it comes to sampling methods for tracking the location and timing of toxic chemical ...

While most people are aware of how plastic, arsenic and various industrial chemicals can pollute bodies of water, the effects ...

At just an inch (2.5 centimeters) long, the sand hoppers skipping across California's Isla Vista Beach at dawn don't exactly ...

Dwarf galaxies—with a mass equal to about a billion suns, but often considerably less—are the most abundant in the universe.

KAIST researchers have demonstrated the potential of using microorganisms to produce a bio-based alternative to ...

Through joint research with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Tokyo, NIMS for the first time experimentally ...

A 178-year-old mystery surrounding one of the earliest recorded examples of space weather affecting technology has been ...

Humpback whale mothers may experience grief when their calves die, a rare research observation led by Griffith University and ...

"Sediment and fossil records are a major pillar of our understanding of how the climate works—but climate scientists have ...