The transformative power of movies
A new study has found that after watching a docudrama about the efforts to free a wrongly convicted prisoner on death row, people...
What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?
Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet. One such space rock...
Weather-changing El Nino oscillation is at least 250 million years old
The El Niño event, a huge blob of warm ocean water in the tropical Pacific Ocean that can change rainfall patterns around the...
Microbes drove methane growth between 2020 and 2022, not fossil fuels
Microbes in the environment, not fossil fuels, have been driving the recent surge in methane emissions globally, according to a new, detailed analysis...
Rapidly increasing industrial activities in Arctic
The Arctic is threatened by strong climate change: the average temperature has risen by about 3°C since 1979 -- almost four times faster...
What to expect at the COP16 biodiversity summit
Countries are convening in Colombia to agree on wide-ranging targets to stem biodiversity loss and make a plan to pay for it
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Half-a-billion-year-old ‘marine Roomba’ is earliest known asymmetrical animal
The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ago in what is now the...
Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth
The oriental hornet...
Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run
Scientists studied the...
Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates
Plants the world over are absorbing about 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new assessment developed by scientists. The...