The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer.
Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world's deadliest snakes bite him.
As efforts to clean thousands of gallons of oil from waters near Baltimore's Harbor East continue, officials are working to rescue turtles and other wildlife from the affected areas. Officials say that the leak originated ...
From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. It will observe how they ...
A chatty animated amphibian starring in videos for Bad Bunny's recent album has launched the Puerto Rican crested toad—an endangered species native to the island—into newfound fame, following years of quiet, collaborative ...
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have made a promising discovery that could lead to the development of a natural and effective tick repellent. They have shown that a naturally occurring compound secreted by ...
Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, "mad cow disease" in cattle, yet they can also play essential roles ...
Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for centuries. Today, the Quilombolas number about 1.3 million people in the country ...
Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire wolf to its rightful place in the ecosystem." Three wolf pups—Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi—were ...
A new study by the University of Oldenburg and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) published in Population and Environment shows that the birth of a child has little impact on parents' environmental and climate concerns—however, ...
