Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?

More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies and river transport, UNICEF said Wednesday.

A team of microbiologists and virologists at Wuhan University, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Research led by the University of New Hampshire sheds light on how coyotes, North America's most successful predators, are ...

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and the world's fastest supercomputers, a research team led by the U.S.

Asset owners who control substantial capital in the financial system through pension funds, endowments, foundations, and ...

Nuclear physics theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that ...

Traditionally, kidney health has been monitored by measuring blood creatinine levels, which indicate muscle breakdown. High ...

In his stone house perched on a hill in northern Ethiopia, Amanuel Hiluf puts on his protective suit, carefully adjusting the hood and gloves.

A "dangerously fast" wildfire fanned by hurricane-strength winds was burning out of control near Los Angeles on Wednesday, with thousands of residents ordered to evacuate and some taken to the ...

Graphs are everywhere. In discrete mathematics, they are structures that show the connections between points, much like a ...

The result is that scorpions have become the most lethal poisonous animal in Brazil, posing a growing danger for people across the whole country—and spurring demand for antivenom. The most widely ...