"We’re potentially losing something that we’re deriving a lot of benefits from, before we actually fully understand it."

Soot from the Amazon fires is coating snow in the Andes range, reducing the glaciers' ability to reflect sunlight, and heating mountain air.

Instead of wondering “Why do animals engage in same-sex behavior?” science should have been asking, “Why not?”

In the past decade, the world has blown past more than half of its climate points-of-no-return, and the effects are accelerating.

Stress can make us overthink to the point of becoming self-conscious.

We can finally put to rest the absurd notion that boys are better at maths.

"A single thread [of plastic] in the stomach of a larval fish is potentially a killer."

Freezing trauma patients could buy doctors two hours instead of mere minutes to save lives.

When the part of the brain responsible for attention decides what's going on externally isn't really important, our thoughts and focus turn inward.

Growing natural vegetation near factories is inexpensive and can reduce pollution by an average of 27%.

Screaming is a unique noise that alerts the brain in a way other noises don't.

Global ambitions to protect 30% of the world's endangered land are hindered by a lack of resources, say scientists.

An open letter by about 200 scientists to the U.N Secretary-General calls for urgent action against nitrogen pollution's 'devastating impact.'

It's time to let die the myth that left-handednes can and should be corrected.

Most of Mumbai, and other coastal Asian cities, will be submerged.

A group of neuroscientists says it may not be ethical to keep using these mini-organs for research.

New research in monkeys suggests the chronic stress that comes with low social status affects gene expression and upward mobility can't undo it.

6167 people in India have died of heatwaves between 2000 and 2018, with one-third of these deaths occurring in 2015.