Between 1992 and 2015, the world’s most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three times the size of Sweden when the land was converted to other uses, mainly agriculture, or gobbled up by urban sprawl.

We may wish some memories could last a lifetime, but many physical and emotional factors can negatively impact our ability to retain information throughout life.

When satellites take pictures of Earth at night, how much of the light that they see comes from streetlights?

Immunotherapies, such as checkpoint inhibitor drugs, have made worlds of difference for the treatment of cancer.

It will be the fifth storm to hit Louisiana this year, and the eleventh to hit the continental United States.

As Tropical Storm Zeta makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast, NASA has eyes on the storm with an array of Earth-observing instruments and stands ready to aid affected communities with critical data and analysis.

Texas A&M researchers are part of a team studying a promising column design strategy.

Iconic symbols of Halloween, bats have long suffered a spooky reputation.

A University of Saskatchewan (USask) graduate student is studying the importance of bison—which she calls a “keystone species”—to Indigenous peoples and to the prairie landscape over time.

Honeybees identify strangers in their midst using signals from the bacteria in the intruder’s digestive system, an international team of biologists has found.