ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATEOklahoma natives woke up to find alligator popsicles - the huge reptiles lying motionless with only their snouts sticking out of the ice - shortly after a cold snap landed on the Southern US earlier this month.
Roopkund Skeleton Lake has been a mystery to scientists ever since its first discovery in 1942. Despite advancements in DNA analysis, researchers can only theorize the cause behind the sudden deaths of thousands of people.
NOIRLab posted an image of two colorful flashes of lightning happening at the same moment. The photo was capture near Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
Fish-inspired robots including catfish Charlie were invented to secretly collect water samples. They are mostly unmanned underwater vehicles controlled through a line-of-sight handset.
A new skeleton study traces back to ancient pandemics - examining how humans have adapted to adapt against pathogens that have caused diseases such as leprosy, tuberculosis, and treponematoses - as a part of the global effort to understand COVID-19 better.
A rare Australian native bee species have been discovered a century after, although the discoverers say there is increasing pressure for these bees to survive.
Scientists filmed kukri snakes eating the internal organs of frogs while it is still alive. This is the first time that scientists have recorded such behavior in reptiles.
Research shows that megatheropods or large bipedal carnivores during the Mesozoic era dominated their ecological community by competing with other smaller species, resulting in the lack of species diversity.
According to scientists, the most fertile topsoil is totally gone from one-third of the entire land allotted to growing crops throughout the upper Midwest.
Research analyzing 4-million-year-old fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus debunks evolutionary theories of man that originated from quadrupedal species. Instead, it shows that man and chimpanzees' last common ancestor had an affinity for brachiation and was bipedal.
Climate change, both man-made and exacerbated and naturally occurring, is one of the monumental existential threats and concerns and, for many, the defining issue of the 21st century. Numbers concerning temperature thresholds and the amount of time available to act on various issues and impending catastrophes are thrown around all the time.
Study shows that outdoor air pollution, such as fireworks and wildfires, also affects the indoor air quality. Researchers call for filter upgrades to mitigate contaminant intrusion.