Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Western Australia have uncovered the importance of hydrothermal vents, similar to underwater geysers, in

Neuromorphic computers aim to one day replicate the amazing efficiency of the brain.

"Our discovery shows that there were many birds, and a variety of them, near the South Pole about 125 million years ago."

Desert dust storms are increasingly picking up materials like sewage, herbicides and other human-made waste and transporting them on tiny particles that are easy to inhale.

Loretta Mickley, a Harvard wildfire expert, says wildfires are not just a symptom of climate change, but with the increased burning of millenia-old global peat stores, have the potential to worsen warming.

Why did more animal species from Asia make the leap to Australia than vice versa? A new study may have some answers.