Nigerien student Hachimou Abdou has had to catch a boat to classes since river water swamped his route to university in the capital Niamey - one of about 760,000 people hit by severe flooding in recent weeks in parts of West and Central Africa. Floods are common during the rainy season, but in recent years climate change, land degradation and poor urban planning have led to more frequent...

Researchers found one Greenland shark that was at least 272 years old. Some of the oldest members of the species may be close to...

NASA is looking to buy Moon dirt from private companies before its 2024 Moon...

A new simulation shows that dark matter haloes look the same, whether Earth-sized or many billions of times larger than the...

Wildfires are ravaging the West -- in California alone, five of the largest blazes on record have all struck in just the past four years -- offering a deadly reminder that the nation is far behind in adopting policies widely known to protect lives and property, even though worsening fires have become a predictable consequence of climate change.This summer has brought another horrific run of...

The treatment, Fasenra, showed a statistically significant improvement in treating patients with severe bilateral nasal polyposis that were still symptomatic despite continued treatment with standard of care. In the study, Fasenra was effective in treating the size of nasal polyps and nasal blockage in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, the company said. Chronic...

In recent weeks, the world has seen ferocious wildfires in the U.S. West, torrential rains in Africa, weirdly warm temperatures on the surface of tropical oceans, and record heat waves from California to the Siberian Arctic. This spate of wild weather is consistent with climate change, scientists say, and the world can expect even more extreme weather and higher risks from natural disasters as...

The treatment, Fasenra, showed a statistically significant improvement in treating patients with severe bilateral nasal polyposis that were still symptomatic despite continued treatment with standard of care. In the study, Fasenra was effective in treating the size of nasal polyps and nasal blockage in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, the company said. Chronic...

Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, at least. Seeking evidence of possible life beyond our solar system, the researchers are hunting for "technosignatures" such as communications signals that may originate from intelligent alien...

Seattle-based First Mode has been awarded a $1.8 million subcontract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build flight hardware for NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is due to conduct the first-ever up-close study of a metal-rich asteroid. Under the terms of the firm, fixed-price contract, First Mode is to deliver a deployable aperture cover that will shield Psyche's Deep Space...

Boeing Co is submitting to an independent review of its compliance and ethics practices, according to an agreement struck with NASA and the U.S. Air Force and seen by Reuters, part of widening fallout from its behavior in bidding to supply lunar landing vehicles. The agreement, signed in August, comes as federal prosecutors continue a criminal investigation into whether NASA's former human...

Conservation group WWF says global wildlife populations have shrunk by two-thirds since...

More than 32,000 tonnes of the chemicals were approved for export by the UK in 2018, says...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture turned 20 years old this week — and although the privately held company hasn't yet put people into space, or put a rocket into orbit, it has spawned a new generation of space startups. One of those startups, Relativity Space, pulled up stakes in Seattle early on and moved to Southern California. Now it's making a multimillion-dollar...