In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry ...

A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior ...

Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, ...

When Amy posts a photograph of herself on Instagram, she knows what will attract attention. A picture of her in a bikini may ...

Chinese astronomers report the detection of a peculiar optical transient event that occurred in the center of a dwarf galaxy.

All cells in the human body—and the motions they enable, from our beating hearts to our wiggling toes—use energy generated by ...

Historians and archaeologists know that maize was a central food source and cultural symbol across the ancient Maya world, ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—the world's biggest fish—are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the ...

SpaceX's mammoth Starship rocket blasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time ...

Modern research on secondary metabolites from microbes, plants and marine organisms has revealed a remarkable diversity of ...

People who receive information on social media play a greater role in the spread of misinformation than research has ...

Haonan Chen, a CSU associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his team have published research that ...