A substance-use prevention program delivered to students and their families in the sixth and seventh grades led to ...

Firefighters in France and Spain rushed to contain the worst wildfires in living memory Tuesday, seizing crucial hours before ...

Firefighters battling devastating fires in France have had to contend with a new threat: immense fire clouds that create ...

To explain the stock market's reaction to earnings results, investors and other market participants have used a standard tool for decades: the earnings surprise.

A puzzle that can tell players how fast they think on their feet has been developed by a University of Leeds researcher.

Plastic recycling could become far more effective thanks to a new technique that restores the strength of damaged engineering plastics by repairing them at the molecular level.

Each time the moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse—darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the sun's ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona—it presents new opportunities to better ...

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are produced when massive objects in the cosmos accelerate or collide. By detecting these waves, astrophysicists can study various ...

A new study using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has ...

Cells carry their own growth switches. When enough nutrients—amino acids in particular—are available, cells flip this switch ...

Complex simulations—the most intricate of their kind to date—carried out by an international research team led by scientists ...

Ancient footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana are reshaping scientists' understanding of one of ...