If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island—a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica—the first ...

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Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in ...

Only 7% of Europe's original area of peatlands remain. What's more: their climate boundaries are shifting. An international ...

How much the planet warms with each ton of carbon dioxide remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but ...

The story lines of every episode of legal TV dramas, from Law & Order to Perry Mason, revolve around five key narrative ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that ...

A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ...

Why does plastic turn brittle and paint fade when exposed to the sun for long periods? Scientists have long known that such ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...