Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit, a move to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns ...

Thailand has given a contraceptive vaccine to wild elephants for the first time in an effort to control their ballooning ...

Australian authorities have sparked a backlash by killing a group of dingoes linked to the death of a young Canadian woman on ...

A volcano in Russia's far east on Wednesday spewed ash several kilometers into the sky, authorities said, putting on a ...

Research in the Journal of Applied Ecology has identified threats to endangered plants in an urban area, generating ...

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Recent research has demonstrated that a rhodium (Rh) cluster of an optimal, intermediate size—neither too small nor too large ...

In its natural state, peatland is one of the largest carbon stores in nature. This is because the soil is so waterlogged and ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has mapped a magnetic ...

Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

New cutting-edge research, led by Academy Professor Otso Ovaskainen of the University of Jyväskylä and David Dunson at Duke ...