Researchers have long observed that a common family of environmental bacteria, Comamonadacae, grow on plastics littered ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to ...

Oysters once formed extensive reefs along much of Europe's coastline—but these complex ecosystems were destroyed over a ...

Utilizing one of the longest-running ecosystem experiments in the Arctic, a Colorado State University-led team of researchers ...

Artificial intelligence is already disrupting industries from banking and finance to film and journalism, and scientists are ...

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz that has been used as a gemstone for many centuries and is a key economic resource in ...

Skygazers on the tip of South America were treated Wednesday to a spectacular "ring of fire" solar eclipse that was visible ...

Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid ...

World skiing's governing body joined forces with the UN's weather agency on Thursday in a bid to feed its meteorological ...

Typhoon Krathon made landfall in Taiwan's south on Thursday, the island's weather agency said, after forcing schools and ...

The Senegalese town of Kayar sits on the doorstep of the vast Atlantic Ocean, but it is a farm located further inland that ...

Mexico's new President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday expressed concern about supplies of drinking water in the country's ...