Atmospheric rivers are often described as “rivers in the sky”; they’re narrow, flowing columns of condensed water vapor up in the atmosphere that can stretch over 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) long.

Usually, the stem cells found in the bone marrow produce the right amount of each type of blood cell to keep us healthy – but ...

It came down to differences in their vertebrae and genetic markers, which were enough to establish a new-to-science species: ...

Across the pond, the oldest river in Europe is thought to be the Meuse, which flows 950 kilometers (590 miles) through three ...

Can fear be fun? What happens to eyes during the mummification process? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of ...

Antibiotic resistance is the term for when bacteria no longer respond to antibiotics – they cannot be killed or have their ...

Researchers have resurrected a strange seed that was discovered in a cave in the Judean desert during the 1980s. According to ...

"This is WILD. This is an 'emission line' from hydrogen gas, where an electron drops down an energy level and gives off a ...

The latest study proposes three candidates for the start of the Anthropocene, but argues that the 1950s was the most likely ...

B uilt and designed over 50 years ago, the Soviet K-222 submarine still holds the record for the world's fastest submarine ...

This is no burning bush or spruce from the Garden of Eden, but "Sheba", the resurrected tree, may have been featured in the ...

Its influence on better-known ancient civilizations is unknown, but may well have been an important missing piece in our ...