PLANET EARTH

NINE GREAT NEWS STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS IN 2016

There has been plenty of fun and uplifting news in the animal world in 2016. Here’s a selection. It’s focused on news that’s good for...

Seismic data from the 2015 eruption of Axial Volcano, an underwater volcano about 300 miles off the Oregon coast, has provided the...

Breakthrough research examines diamonds of exceptional size and quality to uncover clues about Earth's geology. The researchers studied...

Scientists have made the rare discovery of a planetary system with a host star similar to Earth's sun. Especially intriguing is the...

Every country has its own tradition on how to celebrate New Year. We collected few of the most interesting ways of celebrations around...

Christmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the...

Researchers have known for decades that whales create elaborate songs, sometimes projecting their calls for miles underwater. A new study...

As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first...

It may sound like science fiction, but wastewater treatment plants across the United States may one day turn ordinary sewage into...

How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment? It...