The results of the new study, published last month in the journal Subterranean Biology, spread rapidly online due to the ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In ...

The effort to improve forecasts got a high-profile boost in September, when a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member ...

The Lowell Area Schools Board of Education met Monday evening for their regular November meeting. All board members were ...

President Trump has nominated Stuart Levenbach as the next director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Levenbach has no banking or financial services experience. He currently works in the Of ...

The MacArthur Foundation is awarding $100 million to a private pandemic prevention network across Africa, offering critical ...

This article gives simple tips to help children study well during pollution-related online or hybrid classes. It explains how ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

CRISPR gene-editing technology lets scientists make precise changes to an organism’s DNA. Invented in 2012 by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, biochemists who went on to win the Nobel prize ...

New research weighs in on whether sponges or comb jellies sit at the base of the animal family tree, and why the answer ...