The number of Long Island Sound's more than 200 beaches considered safe to swim has fallen in the past four years, and nearly 30% rate either about average or below average for swimming, according to ...

It was approximately 66 million years ago that an asteroid hit Earth. The asteroid landed close to the present-day Yucatán ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Arms bound, tossed into freezing water—if you floated, you were a witch. If you sank, you were innocent... and dead.

Researchers analyzed a global database of 500,000 strange streaks that occur on steep Martian slopes, concluding that they're most likely caused by dry processes rather than liquid flow.

Planetary scientists concluded that dark streaks spotted on the surface of Mars didn't have anything to do with flowing water ...

Researchers have found evidence of animals sailing across the oceans on accidental rafts of vegetation, fallen trees, and ...

"Custom of the sea" was a historically accepted practice of cannibalism as a means of survival during shipwrecks and sea ...

Operating as a colossal floating factory, the Vsevolod Sibirtsev processes up to 600 tons of fish daily, serving as both a ...

An estimated 31 million tons of smelly brown seaweed is floating int eh Atlantic this year, experts say, and Florida beaches ...

Climate change solutions might be lurking in the dark recesses of your home, according to microbiologist James Henriksen, and ...