Nature

During a 23‑day NOAA Ocean Exploration mission off Alaska, a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) encountered an object that ...

Africa remains the planet’s premier refuge for the largest land animals. From elephants and giraffes to rhinos and hippo...

For more than a century, scientists have puzzled over a persistent pocket of unusually cold water south of Greenland tha...

Scientists have taught bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to distinguish short and long flashes of light — a simplified form...

During the severe 2023 drought, several floodplain lakes in Brazil's central Amazon heated to temperatures higher than a...

Most natural diamonds reach the surface inside a rare, carrot-shaped volcanic rock called kimberlite. New computer model...

An unexpected discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean is rewriting ideas about where life can survive. Researchers examining...

New fieldwork at Aguada Fénix — the vast early Maya complex in Tabasco, Mexico — shows the site was planned as a cosmogr...

Tiny glass beads scattered across southern Australia are revealing the fingerprint of a previously unknown meteorite imp...

An imaginative mechanical model of Mount Vesuvius conceived in 1775 has been constructed and activated for the first tim...

Decades of debate in paleontology may finally be settling: a fossil once thought to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex is n...

Scientists drilling in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica have recovered glacial ice and air bubbles that date back ro...

Dolphins found stranded on beaches may be suffering not only from physical exhaustion but also from brain damage that re...

Spraying reflective particles into Earth’s upper atmosphere—an idea known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI)—has r...

In the tangled ecosystems of the Amazon and beyond, animals are locked in a biochemical arms race. Predators, prey and p...

Scientists are turning to a surprising class of two-dimensional compounds—MXenes—to rethink how we produce fuels and ess...

Greenland's solid ground is not as solid as it looks. Decades of ice build-up, melting, and a deep-time rebound from the...

Flatworms are already regeneration superstars in biology labs — cut one in half and you often get two whole animals. Now...

When you picture plastic in the ocean, bottles and bags floating on the surface probably come to mind. But that visible ...

Scientists have found surprising microbial communities living beneath Arctic sea ice — organisms that carry the genetic ...