Imagine massive blackouts, the disruption of essential government services, or hackers gaining access to millions of networked consumer devices. 

A new study shows urbanization is causing many mammal species to grow bigger, possibly because of readily available food in places packed with people.

Warming water and receding sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula is changing the local plankton community with potential consequences for climate change, according to research led by scientists from Duke University and Duke Kunshan.

In June 2021, algal slicks painted the waters green off Qingdao, China, during the region’s largest bloom on record.

Recent years have seen a spate of coral bleaching events, where reefs stressed by unusually warm waters turned white.

Light cannot escape from a black hole, but for the first time ever, researchers have observed light from behind a black hole — a scenario that was predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity but never confirmed, until now.

An exhaustive and painstaking comparison of the genomes of multiple strains of the cacao tree by a team of researchers has provided insights into the role genomic structural variants play in the regulation of gene expression and chromosome evolution, giving rise to the differences within populations of the plant.

As the North Pole, the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding Arctic land warm rapidly, scientists are racing to understand the warming’s effects on Arctic ecosystems.

Microscopic marine life plays a fundamental role in the health of the ocean and, ultimately, the planet. 

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.