Science

Every spring, millions of young salmon ride the Columbia and Snake rivers toward the Pacific, and on the…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to…

Possums are among New Zealand’s most destructive introduced mammals. They damage native forests, prey on wildlife and remain…

A new purple cooling fabric developed by Chinese and Australian researchers could help people stay cooler during scorching…

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A spectacular fireball streaked across the Hungarian sky early on Saturday, briefly turning night into day in parts…

In this incredible footage captured by wildlife photographer Piet van den Bemd, a curious penguin waddles down a…

Researchers walk through a grove of large baobab trees in Madagascar. Credit: Nisa Karimi Genetic analysis has revealed…

The Australian government has been accused of leaving waters near the mainland largely unprotected by establishing the bulk…

NASA calls this image “Pluto’s Blue Sky.” It’s a backlit view of Pluto, acquired by the New Horizons…

The principle of vacuum birefringence, a quantum effect first predicted almost 90 years ago by Werner Heisenberg, states…

Deep in the Scottish Highlands, a process of regeneration is taking place An English businessman who bought a…

Engineers sent robotic “sensor fish” through a Columbia River dam, then subjected 5,767 young salmon to the same pressure drop — revealing that turbine blades are rarely what kill them; their swim bladders expand so violently that organs rupture and gas bubbles lodge in their gills