The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

For decades, Europa has been cast as one of the Solar System’s best bets for alien biology, a frozen world hiding a global ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

This video breaks down why the LAB Golf OZ.1 HS is generating so much attention. Its zero-torque design keeps the face square ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Beaked whales are rarely spotted. Now scientists are using underwater sounds to help identify these elusive creatures.

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

The dog's owners 'started crying right away' when they learned their pup was safe San Diego Fire-Rescue Department/Facebook A dog ran off on a vacation in San Diego and ended up in the ocean, ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

SAN DIEGO — Just steps from the waves at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SOARS, short for Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator, sits inside a decades-old redwood structure ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials.” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, is pioneering automated electric vessels to map the ocean floor and improve search and rescue missions.Andrew March, senior technical staff, said ...