Los Angeles parents and school officials are on high alert as researchers report a spike in teenagers using easy-to-access AI tools to whip up sexualized images of classmates. What some students may ...

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating back to around ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Bennu looked far different up close than scientists expected, and that mismatch led to a deeper investigation into how asteroid surfaces behave. What researchers found in returned samples helped ...

A bill to curb strategic lawsuits against public participation died this session, but these so-called SLAPPs are a likely ...

Pesticide contamination continues to spread into protected areas, as documented by a study in Brazil of epilithic biofilms.

NASA explains why asteroid Bennu appeared different than expected, as OSIRIS REx data and lab analysis reveal cracked rocks affecting thermal behavior and surface observations.

The rocks beneath our feet are leaving a hidden signature in the shells of marine snails along Australia's ancient coastline, ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...