The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada’s Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge.

Cuba set an all time cold record with a temperature of 0°C, or 32°F, on Tuesday morning, breaking the previous record of 0.6°C, recorded in 1996. The new record was measured at 7 a.m. by an official ...

The Chernobyl disaster remains etched in global memory. Yet scientists are still struggling to fully understand its long-term health impacts. In hopes of gaining clearer insight, a research team ...

To reach this unexpected conclusion, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health analyzed data from 487,194 participants with an average age of ...

The Ordos Basin holds an estimated 30 million tons of uranium, announced in January 2025 by the China Geological Survey. A second major deposit was discovered in July 2025 in the Tarim Basin at 1,820 ...

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

Just a few miles can make a dramatic difference. Two neighboring cities may experience completely different levels of heat stress, simply because of their location, vegetation cover, or the extent of ...

Fifteen years ago, scientists identified nine planetary boundaries – physical thresholds humanity should not exceed if it wants to remain within a “safe operating space.” These limits define the ...

Laboratory analysis uncovered a significant discrepancy between marketing claims and chemical reality. Several pans explicitly labeled “PFOA-free” tested positive for traces of perfluorooctanoic acid ...

Deep inside a Spanish cave, an unusual accumulation has puzzled researchers for years. Carefully placed remains, repeated over an exceptionally long period, suggest that Neanderthals maintained a ...

Norway proved government policy can reshape a market at scale. It also proved that success creates new problems. When electric vehicles become the default, subsidies stop accelerating adoption and ...

Studies conducted by Chinese research teams have confirmed the strong potential of the Xuntian space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2027. Equipped with cutting edge instruments, Xuntian is ...