Global timekeepers voted Oct. 15 to end leap seconds from May 2027 after Earth’s faster spin raised the odds of the first ...

Thousands of Adélie penguins that died in Antarctica in 2024 were mainly killed by avian cholera, not H5N1 bird flu, a new ...

Warwick astronomers say white dwarf WD J1330+6435 would look green to the eye after sodium-rich planetary debris polluted its ...

Antarctic sea ice has hit record daily lows since Oct. 2, beating 2023, after a third-lowest winter peak. Here is what drives ...

Barn owls are nesting in a water tower on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, likely a first. Here is how they were found and why ...

A Landsat 9 image shows a spider-shaped scar in Western Australia. It is Spider Crater, the eroded core of an impact up to ...

A PNAS study of 40 elephant death sites in Kruger found soil nitrogen spikes, fewer plant species, and heavier grazing that ...

Federico Veronesi’s photo of an elephant carrying her dead calf in Namibia won Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026. See ...

Madison lab test found uracil breaks down 7 times faster than thymine under harsh UV, a clue to DNA’s origins but not the ...

A PNAS study of Dutch dunes found a grass-cover threshold below which dunes lose sand on their own. Trampling or storms could ...

Cape Town plans to trap the Waterfall and Seaforth baboon troops and hold 60 animals for life at Kogelfontein, splitting ...

Spotted bats in a northern Arizona cave carry the same maternal DNA as bats that died there up to 2,100 years ago, a new PLOS ...