Researchers at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University discovered that hippocampal place cells in ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather ...

A rare blanket of heavy snow fell on parts of northeastern Turkey on Friday as other parts of the country battled a growing ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

University of Sydney researchers have harnessed human-made lightning to develop a more efficient method of generating ammonia ...

Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...

A polar air mass has brought record low temperatures to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, causing at least 15 deaths and forcing ...

Firefighters early Friday gained control over a major wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir but two others ...