Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

In fiction, The Twilight Zone is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, between the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Have you noticed that when you watch someone move—like watching people dance, or watching your favorite sport—that you almost ...

A dramatic reduction in sulfur pollution from shipping has unintentionally contributed to recent global warming, offering a ...

Snow and cold produced slushy waters along the Maine shoreline on Wednesday morning, January 29, as the National Weather Service (NWS) reported snowfall of up to 5 inches in the state. Footage filmed ...

Sea surface temperatures were the highest on record (again) for the month of December across the northern half of the Atlantic Ocean. So meteorologist Chris Merchant and colleagues used satellite data ...

Key Laboratory of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System, Ministry of Education, Zhuhai 519082, China School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, and Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...

Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together ... waves to bounce back up to Earth's surface reveals aspects of the ...

For decades, we have been imaging the surface of Mars with ever-finer resolution ... the somewhat nebulous boundary between its relatively elevated southern half, and the low basin that occupies ...