The climate we live in affects our lives in profound ways: hot summers, cold winters, dry spells and wet weather all leave ...

Some 4,700 years ago, four exotic female donkeys were brought hundreds of miles from Egypt to Canaan to be sacrificed and ...

Artificial lakes, like reservoirs, face the biggest risks. They are often shallow and lack strong groundwater connections.

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in the face of droughts and shortages, new research has found.

Teeth can tell a life’s story, even when they’re 150 million years old. One of the new frontiers in paleontological research ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

In a quiet corner of eastern China, nestled between the Tai-Yi Mountains and the Bohai Sea, a discovery has upended ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...

Researchers have measured oxygen isotopes in other archaeological remains and in water all over North America, giving us a water “isotope map.” But matching the bone isotope values to the water map is ...