Screaming cicadas are coming back in "once in a lifetime" event
This will be the first time since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 that these broods of noisy, flying insects will emerge from underground.
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This will be the first time since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 that these broods of noisy, flying insects will emerge from underground.
Exactly why the great ape died off after flourishing for hundreds of thousands of years has been one of the lasting mysteries of paleontology.
An international collaboration of researchers, led by Smithsonian scientists, identified five new species of soft-furred hedgehogs.
Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright, nearby star in perfect synchrony like a grand cosmic orchestra.
Researchers were able to attract "one of the world's rarest rodents" in their endangered habitat using glass oil lamps filled with sesame oil.
"One could think of the body of a starfish ... as a disembodied head walking about the sea floor on its lips," researchers said.
Average temperatures across Earth in 2023 have been dangerously close to the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold scientists have long warned would bring significant challenges to people worldwide.
The device worked to "reduce freezing of gait" by electrically stimulating the Parkinson's patient's spinal cord, according to a new study.
Thermogenesis, a biotech company, is creating new labs for new gene therapy technology. The company's CEO said it's a win for the city of Sacramento as much as it is for his company.
NASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft.
Two giant rocket motors required to display the retired NASA space shuttle Endeavour as if it's about to blast off have arrived at a Los Angeles museum, completing their long journey from the Mojave Desert.
A space capsule carrying NASA's first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert.
Volunteers helped digitize millions of pieces of previously classified data.
Four astronauts are back on Earth after a six-month stay at the International Space Station.
State officials recently introduced Sacramento perch to Southern California in an attempt to widen its range, strengthen its gene pool, create a breeding stock and generate interest among more anglers.
A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off on Russia's first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land ahead of an Indian spacecraft.
Elon Musk says he may need to get surgery before a proposed "cage match" with Mark Zuckerberg.
A newly studied species of ancient whale might be the heaviest animal ever found.
New research shows winter waves off California's Pacific coast are swelling in size as the planet warms.
Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday he is resigning Aug. 31 after an investigation commissioned by the school's Board of Trustees found "manipulation of research data" in several academic papers of which he was the principal author.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and environmental groups are clashing over some climate policies.
Saturn has a fresh new look thanks to NASA's Webb Space Telescope.
A robot fish named Belle could be the "spy on the marine life" that researchers have been looking for.
Inside a lab at UC Davis, researchers are perfecting a product by using a microprocessor to take food waste and turn it into fuel in less than a week.
Chicken grown from animal cells, not from slaughtered birds, can now be sold in the U.S. The Agriculture Department issued approvals Wednesday to California firms Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell the products, known as "lab-grown" or "cultivated" meat.
