Elana Glowatz

Humans have dumped so much plastic and waste into the ocean that it is forming islands of trash.

It only took a few generations for these birds to create a new species, instead of the hundreds of generations scientists have typically believed was needed.

Best Buy and the Nintendo store are offering chances to get an SNES Classic console this weekend.

Amazon’s Treasure Truck is carrying a huge bow and arrow for its Black Friday deal. Here’s how and where to find it.

As climate change melts glaciers, the pressure shifts on the Earth’s underground magma chambers — with potentially disastrous consequences.

Human speech and zebra finch songs share a lot of patterns and we are hardwired to prefer these sounds.

Prehistoric people carried the bacteria that causes the plague thousands of years before the infamous Black Death of the Middle Ages.

When the world is hotter, it might change the way baby animals develop — and they might be dumber.

The moon makes waves with the force of gravity, but earthquakes makes them bigger by changing the ocean floor.

Drugs are dangerous for different reasons, including how lethal they are and how they affect the entire community.

Scientists have found ancient rock carvings that show humans holding their dogs on leashes as they hunt.

Everyone’s favorite holiday spice could help you lose weight, because scientists found that cinnamon encourages fat cells to burn themselves up.

Scientists watching whales for left-handed and right-handed behavior have found a weird ambidextrous pattern.

There could be a stronger link between oxygen and the evolution of life on Earth than scientists have thought.

The James Webb Space Telescope is one step closer to searching the universe for aliens, after it survived living in NASA’s cryogenic vacuum chamber.

There could be Earth life that has been carried through space to other planets — or life from other planets that was transported to Earth.

Manson orchestrated the savage murders of Sharon Tate and others in the late 1960s. What explains him?

The New Horizons spacecraft has gotten us closer than ever to Pluto and shown NASA how complex this dwarf planet really is.

A new report says drinking coffee could help protect your liver from cancer and other damage.

To put astronauts on the moon and mine asteroids for their resources, China plans to develop rockets that run on nuclear power instead of chemical fuel.

Single people who own dogs get physical activity and companionship, and tend to live longer.

This robot named Atlas is able to do backflips now and it is a little creepy.

Scientists have found a meteorite that broke off a massive asteroid we have yet to discover.

We don’t know as much as we thought about when and how modern humans combined their societies with those of Neanderthals.

Fireballs don’t look so scary when these super bright meteors are viewed from the perspective of an astronaut on the International Space Station.

Pluto is so cold because weird particles in its atmosphere are eating up all the heat.

Researchers are removing harmful genetic mutations from a patient with a devastating disorder and replacing them, the first time scientists have used gene-editing technology in a living person’s body.

A “space kingdom” named after the city of the gods in Norse mythology has launched its first satellite into space, a move its founder says will help it become a recognized nation.

Scientists discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star where, earlier this year, they had previously picked up mysterious radio signals that some had attributed to aliens.