Colin O’Brady and Louis Rudd spent almost two months racing across Antarctica, a journey that killed an explorer who attempted it in 2016. Back in warmer climes, they spoke about the race of a lifetime.

Scientists say a drastic cut in meat consumption is needed, but this requires political will

Underwater robot has delivered over 100k baby corals in attempt to restore part of the Great Barrier Reef

More than half of female elephants are being born without tusks

Last spring, Marketplace host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister, Carly, bought DNA ancestry kits from five of the most popular companies in the industry. Find out why some of the results they received left a team of computational biologists ...

Moderate earthquakes aren’t releasing enough stress along the region’s faults. They’re actually making it worse.

Several companies are diversifying their businesses, from biofuels to electric vehicles

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come

An analysis concluded that Earth’s oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago, a finding with dire implications for climate change.

Location of statues was based on nearby fresh water and other resources, says US study

Rich Alati had a six-figure sum in his sights. As long as he could survive 30 days in the dark with no human contact

New York is in the midst of an outbreak of measles, a childhood disease that shouldn’t really exist in the U.S. any longer. On Tuesday, NBC News reported, New York health officials said the state has seen more than 100 cases of the vaccine-preventabl ...

Manufacturing errors, undetected by inexpert consumers, may be more dangerous than other threats from 3D-printed guns.

Formally known as Achatinella apexfulva, the 14-year-old Hawaiian tree snail was the last of its kind on the planet.

Why is water densest at around 4 degrees Celsius? Why does ice float? Why does heavy water have a different melting point compared to normal water? Why do snowflakes have a six-fold symmetry? A collaborative study of researchers from the École Polyte ...

Public Health England aims to persuade parents to reduce sugar in children’s diets

A species of duck thought to have been wiped out a decade ago is re-released at a lake in Madagascar.

Death was the great leveller, but new life-extension technologies will widen the gap between the haves and havenots