A sudden burst of red light flickered above a thunderstorm, and for a brief moment, Earth’s upper atmosphere revealed one of its most elusive secrets.

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We all know that trees are an important part of our climate efforts. But we usually envision this as lush forests soaking up ...

For most of the day and night, koalas barely move. They nap curled into tree forks, or chew carefree on eucalyptus leaves.

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

In the waters off Madagascar’s northeast coast, archaeologists say they have uncovered the final resting place of a ship ...

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...