If you know one thing about atoms, it’s probably that they’re “mostly empty space.” but that’s not really true. It’s a myth ...

We all know the story. Dinosaurs were roaming the earth, happy as could be, and then our planet met a big asteroid. Thus ...

(via New Scientist) Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

Imprisoned for heresy, Gerardus Mercator later created a map that transformed navigation forever. We explore why his ...

A pilot study of a new method for treating sewage sludge from a wastewater treatment plant efficiently created renewable natural gas while reducing the cost of the treatment. The work, reported in the ...

Join cryoengineers Greg Tatkowski and Chris James, along with physicist Daniel Bafia, as they unravel the mysteries of ...

Spotted lanternflies are invasive insects that spread by hitchhiking on almost anything we move. Once they arrive, they swarm ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

Technology billionaire Peter Thiel has been warning about stagnation in American science. In a recent conversation with ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...