All of the cells in your body are held together by an outer layer, known as the membrane, that is made up of fats called ...

Sulfur butterflies glide across Zorrillo Canyon, hundreds of them, moving back and forth against the cerulean sky. It's ...

Lawmakers return to Washington with a packed agenda and just a few weeks to avoid another shutdown. A farm bill and water ...

Small lakes on ancient Mars may have remained liquid for decades, even with average air temperatures well below freezing.

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

The fate of these ecosystems may hinge on events in the Pacific Ocean, in particular a natural climate cycle called the El ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

What we know today as the North and Baltic seas looked a whole lot different thousands of years ago (8,000 to 6,000 BCE to be exact), where there were vast plains. Of course, this meant ancient human ...

The UC San Diego-led program joins forces with research programs across the world to improve forecasts of extreme weather ...