Traffic in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, is congested and chaotic. About 1.8 million vehicles used Lagos roads in 2022. The ...

Astronomers have known for a century that the universe is expanding. We can now trace this expansion over much of its almost ...

One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started.

If you visit a commercial mining operation anywhere in the world today, some sights and sounds—workers descending in ...

As Thanksgiving approaches, white sharks are still trying to have a feast of their own in the chilly waters. Shark ...

A pair of environmental physicists at the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, has built a 3D ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million ...

Blazing flames light the sky as Indian farmer Ali Sher burns his fields to clear them for new crops, a common but illegal ...

A Philippine Eagle chick hatched via artificial insemination has died, an avian conservation foundation has announced, in a ...

A small team of physicists at the University of Amsterdam has demonstrated the ability of 3D-printed particles to propel ...

Delegates seeking the world's first deal to curb plastic pollution began openly advocating for an extension of talks on ...

Very little of the world's plastic waste—about half of which comes from single-use plastics such as packaging, straws and ...