As nature's architects, animals shape forests, rivers and soil Animals don't just inhabit nature, they shape it. Indeed, protecting nature's architects helps safeguard the landscapes they have been ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

Scientists have found new evidence that the Earth’s inner core may be changing over time. A recent study by researchers at ...

Faced with myriad problems including gridlocked traffic and a sinking earth surface in its current capital, Iran is ...

Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...