In reptiles, a simple temperature change can determine whether an egg develops into a male or female. This process is ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

On a warm summer night, when everything else grows quiet, the air begins to buzz with a steady rhythm. Crickets chirp from ...

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the new phase, dubbed XXI, requires extreme levels ...

Researchers have long known that temperature can determine whether some reptiles develop as male or female, but this process ...