Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has survived another attempt to weaken the rules that guide its protection. A Congressional Review Act push to overturn the monument’s 2025 ...

Computer chips may be heading toward a new kind of precision, one measured not in wires or circuits, but in single layers of atoms. A research team has found that coating an ultrathin chip material ...

A suitcase can look ordinary from the outside. Inside, it may hold the remains of a shark, a bundle of dried seahorses, or marine animals packed for a long, stressful flight. A new study suggests that ...

A tiny green parrot that many bird experts knew mostly from old museum specimens has turned up again in one of Indonesia’s hardest-to-reach mountain forests. The Blue-fronted Lorikeet, found only on ...

How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a snowy mountain slope? In Switzerland, scientists now have an unusually detailed answer. A new national map shows light ...

A new X-ray study has taken a sharper look at the hot gas inside the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the brightest galaxy clusters in the X-ray sky. The result challenges an old puzzle about whether ...

A single workout can do more than wake up tired legs. New research suggests that as inactive adults become fitter, their brains may use each new burst of exercise more effectively. The finding shifts ...

A plant that looks almost too simple to notice has just pushed scientists into strange chemical territory. Researchers studying smooth horsetail, a hollow-stemmed survivor from one of Earth’s oldest ...

On the beaches of Cabo Verde, more turtle tracks in the sand can look like a victory, but a new long-term study suggests that the real story is more complicated because loggerhead sea turtles are ...

In Malawi’s southern Chiradzulu district, Diana Sitima’s farm stands out for a simple reason. On 8.6 acres near Blantyre, she is not betting everything on maize. Her land produces sweet potatoes, ...

A tiny particle that crossed the universe and reached Antarctica may have started its journey inside a distant galaxy wrapped in dust. A new study points to JCMT0402−0424, nicknamed “Shadow Blaster,” ...

Imagine prying open a doorway that has not moved since Neanderthals walked along the Mediterranean shore. That is roughly what archaeologists have done inside a hidden chamber in Gibraltar. What would ...