NSF, founded in 1950, has a $9 billion budget that can be a lifeline for resource-strapped professors and the younger researchers they recruit to their teams. It has shifted priorities over time but ...

When tropical cyclone Alfred battered Australia's east coast, it left wildlife injured, displaced, and struggling to survive.

The EA-6B Prowler set the very highest standard for electronic warfare, not only in the U.S. military but across the world.

Robins are particular when it comes to their preferred accommodation and you have to choose wisely if you want to see them ...

Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for ...

Texas chose the northern mockingbird as its state bird, with this legislation -- “a fighter for the protection of his home, ...

Nature’s natural colors can be breathtaking. Tropical birds are famous for their brightly colored feathers, and many fish ...

Residents in the Suffolk town of Lowestoft have said their high street is being carpeted in bird poo from a flock of ...

From 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, the Park System invites area residents to help clean the coastline at Bayshore Waterfront Park ...

The birds fly in bunches, clouds of bobbing feathers and beaks, flocks shaping and shifting as they glide into the flats.

Known for her showstopping red carpet looks, Blake Lively brought full opulence for the launch of Pharrell William's Tiffany ...

Growing up in the 1960s and 70s in Uniondale and Hempstead, one entomologist recalled hundreds of cicadas clinging to tree trunks, singing their persistent buzzing, whirring mating songs.