The next time you see a spider crawling around your house, look at the bright side. It’s probably feasting on a bunch of other insects and providing you with free pest control.
As we keep discovering new species (which aren’t actually new) of animals and plants that lived in the past and the present, we keep revising the tree of life to better understand how life originated on Earth and how it spread to the multitudes of life …
The damage caused by a British-owned cruise ship that accidentally ran aground on a pristine Indonesian coral reef could total more than $18 million, according to academics and environmental groups working in the region.
The SpaceX Falcon rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, carrying a load of supplies for the International Space Station.
HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. – April the giraffe continues to have “significant changes” as she gets closer to giving birth to her fourth calf, officials at Animal Adventure Park said.
A newfound, 400,000-year-old hominin skull has a few telltale features suggesting that it’s more of a Neanderthal than a Homo sapiens relation, a new study finds.
Sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at a record-breaking pace. Scientists blame a warming climate for most of that, but researchers have now teased out a natural cycle for how Arctic sea ice melts year-to-year.
This computer generated image shows when Chandrayaan-1 was detected. The purple circle represents the Goldstone radar beam and the white box shows the strength of the echo.
Brazilian researchers have discovered the world first fluorescent tree frog species in the forests of Amazon basin. The polka dotted tree frog changes color from dull yellow to neon green under UV light.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn’s “Death Star” moon Mimas on Nov. 19, 2016, from a distance of about 53,000 miles (85,000 kilometers).
A decade of observation in a fjord on B.C.’s North Coast has uncovered an intriguing pattern among the thriving humpback whales that feed there each summer.
“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming …
In this Mar. 3, 2017 photo, green algae swirls on the beach of Bandar al-Jissah in Oman. The Gulf of Oman turns green twice a year, when an algae bloom the size of Mexico spreads across the Arabian Sea all the … more. Photo: Sam McNeil, AP. Image 2 …
In this Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015 file photo, an artwork entitled ‘One Heart One Tree’ by artist Naziha Mestaoui is displayed on the Eiffel tower ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, in Paris.
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