Scientists investigating a proposed way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using seawater have found that adding too much alkalinity to neutralize acids can trigger chemical reactions that ...

Howdy, pards, here's a quick roundup of the week's science news: Moose, previously thought to be a transplanted species, are ...

What did the very first complex vertebrate brain look like? To find out, scientists turned to an unlikely time traveler: the ...

Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heat wave battering Europe, the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) told AFP.

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has revealed striking similarities in the ...

Seawater is seeping into Italy's longest river as the waterway starts to run dry in the heat wave, hitting a farming heartland that produces the milk for Parmesan cheese.

A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don't worry: It poses no danger. The space rock—1997 NC1—makes its closest approach Saturday morning, coming within 1.6 million miles (2.6 ...

Scientists have spotted two humpback whales that made separate, record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil.

In Estonian schools, social studies classes provide a thorough education on what democracy is and what it means to be a citizen. However, knowledge alone is not enough to foster active citizenship or ...

Investigative interviewing—the process of obtaining accurate and complete accounts from victims, witnesses and suspects—is the lifeblood of the criminal justice system.

The Botanical Garden in Uppsala was recently visited by animal ecology researchers, who conducted a BioBlitz to find, ...

Biologists group animals with similar traits into broad categories called orders. Despite their similarities, animal species in the same order can have very different average lifespans. One of the ...