Disaster-hit Sri Lanka has unveiled a major compensation package to rebuild homes damaged by a deadly cyclone, even as the ...

Spanish authorities said Saturday they are investigating five laboratories in an effort to find the source of an African ...

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The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

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Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in ...

How much the planet warms with each ton of carbon dioxide remains one of the most important questions in climate science, but ...

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This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN's ATLAS experiment ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have created a new carbon-negative building material that could transform ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said ...

The story lines of every episode of legal TV dramas, from Law & Order to Perry Mason, revolve around five key narrative ...