What can mapped drainage systems on Mars teach scientists about the red planet's watery past? This is what a recent study ...

Ancient, elegant, and dripping with all the intrigue of a former Soviet city, Riga is one of Europe's most underrated ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

Scientific American sits down with nature writer Robert Macfarlane to discuss his latest book—one of our top picks of 2025—and whether a river has rights ...

Science X is a network of high quality websites with most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news ...

Many of the world’s most beautiful beach towns started as ancient ports, bustling with trade, sailors, and cultural exchange.

Europe's mighty Danube River flows through major cities like Vienna and Budapest, but consider strolling along its banks in ...

Djoomart Otorbaev touts an ambitious infrastructure initiative to support parched communities and overburdened power grids.

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier ...

Why is it now widely considered acceptable to heap pollutants in to lakes until the ecosystems they once sustained are ...