One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

The minuscule spheres, typically less than 5 millimeters in diameter, are the basic building blocks of nearly all plastic ...

Watch as two British men try fried soft-shell crab for the first time at a lively seafood market. Their hilarious reactions highlight the surprising softness of the crab’s shell, and a friendly staff ...

The analysis shows that, in 2025, around 16% of the global ocean area reached a record-high OHC, and about 33% ranked among ...

A new international analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on 9 January finds that the Earth’s ocean stored ...

The ocean stored more heat in 2025 than ever recorded, fueling sea level rise, extreme weather, and growing climate impacts ...

Thousands lined the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok as Thailand welcomed the New Year. In Dubai, people watched fireworks from ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations ...

Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest ...

On Sundays, Jeanie Buss likes to walk to a neighborhood spot for lunch and then the movie theater (she always orders the ...

Last chapter in Colombo Elegant, articulate and amiable, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung reaches the end of her term ...