Before being tested in animals or humans, most cancer drugs are evaluated in tumor cells grown in a lab dish.

On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision.

Hurricane Maria dropped more rain on Puerto Rico than any storm to hit the island since 1956, a feat due mostly to the effects of human-caused climate warming, new research finds.

UCLA researchers and colleagues have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow.

When it comes to understanding future climate, the south Asian summer monsoon offers a paradox.

NOAA Fisheries staff from the Milford Laboratory in Connecticut have created a Citizen Science Guide to help growers capture high quality underwater footage of aquaculture gear.

If you live near the Great Lakes and have to spend any significant time on the road, you’re forgiven if you get a little edgy whenever the forecast calls for lake-effect snow.

Astronomers from the United States and South Korea have made the first high-resolution, radio telescope observations of the molecular clouds within a massive star-forming region of the outer Milky Way.

A new paper published today in the journal Nature Communications shows a blueprint for conserving enough habitat to protect the populations of almost one-third of the warblers, orioles, tanagers, and other birds that migrate among the Americas throughout the year.

In most colonies, ants work in service of a single reproductive queen, but that’s not always the way ant societies function.