Your immune system’s natural killer cells recognize and attack two major kinds of danger – cells infected by viruses and cells affected by cancer.

Connected areas of high-quality forest running through oil palm plantations could help support increased levels of biodiversity, new research suggests.

An international team of scientists reviewed more than 10,000 published climate change studies and has reached a sobering conclusion.

The quantity of cosmic dust that trickles down to Earth each year ranges between several thousand and ten thousand tons. 

To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface — an underwater “internet of things.” 

Wildfires in the West are becoming inevitable, and communities that rethink what it means to live with them will likely fare better than those that simply rebuild after they burn.

Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as "seeps." 

Agriculture, forestry, and other types of land use account for 23% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, yet at the same time natural land processes absorb the equivalent of almost a third of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry, according to the International Panel on Climate Change, which issued the first-ever comprehensive report on land and climate interactions earlier this month. 

Swiss team is taking a holistic approach to managing the risks of glacial retreat and identifying new avenues of research.

Since the first Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300 million years ago, grasslands have sustained humanity and thousands of other species.