A city of half a million people shut every one of its 94 primary and secondary schools on Monday after a black bear was seen wandering through town for the first time in local memory. Utsunomiya, located about 100...
A forest can look perfectly healthy from space while its animal life is already vanishing. That gap between what satellites see and what ecosystems...
A team of Chinese scientists has taken a gene from a desert moss that can survive extreme drought and heat and inserted it into cotton plants grown...
A city of half a million people shut every one of its 94 primary and secondary schools on Monday after a black bear was seen wandering through town...
The official price tag of global disasters sits at roughly $202 billion each year. That number misses most of the real cost. When indirect damage...
A 27-year-old man in Kenya has taken his own parents to court, accusing them of forcing him to attend church services against his will. The case...
Octopuses are showing up in places they have never been seen before along the coast of the United Kingdom, including as far north as Scotland. A new...
A man in China bought a flat on the 34th floor of a building that only has 32 floors. He received no compensation from the developer. The buyer...
Three new species of praying mantis have been discovered in Australia and Papua New Guinea, and they do something unusual: they flatten their bodies...
A camera trap set in a sacred community forest in Nepal has captured an image of a Chinese pangolin, one of the world's most trafficked and elusive...
A cleaner at a university in China spent a year studying on her own, sitting in on classes and using the library, and has now been accepted into...
Tuna are rebounding in several regions, but the recovery is fragile and far from complete. Scientists and fishery managers say the progress could...
More than a million people flooded central Madrid on Sunday to see Pope Leo XIV celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi on a route covered in...
A century old puzzle about how humans see color has been cracked by mathematicians. The breakthrough proves that the qualities we call hue...
A comet from another star system just surprised astronomers with hidden methane and exotic chemistry unlike almost anything seen in our solar system...
