The Cascadia subduction zone and northern San Andreas fault may sometimes rupture in rapid succession, according to evidence preserved in 3,100 years of ocean sediments. Researchers identified unusual ...

Lake Powell has fallen to its lowest level on record after an exceptionally dry and warm winter left the Colorado River Basin ...

Some tropical trees have evolved a clever way to survive drought by taking in carbon dioxide at night, allowing them to keep their pores closed during the hot daytime and conserve water. By comparing ...

Scientists have found strong observational evidence that a key part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has been weakening across a wide stretch of ocean for nearly two decades. The ...

Chronic inflammation tied to stress, lifestyle, mental health, and socioeconomic conditions may silently change the heart for ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has successfully activated its 300-megapixel infrared camera, which will capture enormous ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

A new experimental drug called CS18 may help break through cancer drug resistance by disabling several of the defenses tumors ...

A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs ...

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, ...

A sweeping review of more than 153,000 adults found that calcium and vitamin D supplements, alone or together, do little to ...

Stanford researchers have recorded the first real-time quantum jumps of sound, watching single phonons abruptly vanish from one energy state to another. The breakthrough could open new paths for ...