Eric Ralls

Weather has always been treated as something to predict, not control. We watch storms form, calculate where they are headed, and warn people to get out of the way.

Marine animals shrink far more sharply during the planet's hottest climate crises than during disasters of any other kind, according to a new study.

A new sensor can detect dopamine, a brain chemical that helps regulate movement and mood, from a small sample of tears.

Researchers tracking owls in a dry corner of northern Chile have found that a changing climate is steadily altering which prey the birds hunt.

Undergraduate students collected nearly 2,500 samples of environmental microbes across their university campus in Milan, mapping the local microbiome in about eight hours of fieldwork.

Earth.com staff writer A 518-million-year-old fossil from southern China holds the earliest known trace of the fanged pincers that spiders and scorpions carry today.

Millions of people now chat with AI companions for advice, comfort, or simple conversation. But for some, those exchanges quietly become something much deeper.

Earth.com staff writer Researchers have identified about 90 genes that can help trigger basal-like breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and hardest-to-treat forms of the disease.

Tiny pieces of space debris, some just 2 inches (5 centimeters) across, have been hiding undetected in one of Earth's busiest satellite orbits.

Earth.com staff writer Researchers have found that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes help decide whether a long-term memory survives, rather than simply supporting the neurons that store it.