The Hiroshima atomic bombing created a bizarre new material. Scientists just discovered it he extreme conditions of atomic ...

Many of these structures date to around C.E. 100–300, during the time of the Aquiry civilization, and may have been used for ...

A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially ...

If starry galaxies are like bright ships on a cosmic sea, then supermassive black holes are like their dark anchors. Weighing ...

A newly discovered change in ribosomal RNA makes protein production more precise, potentially safeguarding these cephalopods’ ...

Smell can bring back vivid childhood memories—the so-called “Proust’s madeleine” phenomenon—and neuroscientists now think ...

Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and female ...

A surprisingly large number and diversity of bee species – 74 out of 96 tested – have magnetic properties, according to ...

Physicists, mathematicians and philosophers have been exploring the possibility of going forward to the future or back to the ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck just south of the city of Kumamoto on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu on Tuesday ...