UC Berkeley researchers have found fossil evidence that animals from different latitudes of North America and South America mixed long before the Panamanian land bridge permanently linked the two ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over a cosmic paradox: if supermassive black holes blast out powerful jets that heat their surroundings, how do they keep feeding themselves? New images from the ...

Black holes are often imagined as bottomless pits, swallowing everything that dares to cross their path. But new observations of a dramatic outburst from the black hole system Swift J1727.8−1613 ...

Researchers from Drexel University and Penn State University have developed a new hydrogel and can be used to produce durable ...

Betelgeuse, the blazing red supergiant in Orion, has enchanted skywatchers for centuries. One of the brightest stars visible ...

Using Survey data from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury, the researchers studied star formation near M32.

The history of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa has long puzzled scientists. Now, a newly studied site in eastern Senegal offers one of the clearest windows to date into this ancient ...

Giant caldera eruptions release huge amounts of magma in a short time, creating large crater-like landscapes. These eruptions are very different from smaller, frequent volcanic eruptions because they ...

Microplastics have been increasingly detected in the human body, raising major concerns about their health effects. In response, scientists have considered ways to safely detach these particles, and ...

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo experimentally demonstrate unique optical behavior from a long-sought aperiodic pattern Credit Institute of Industrial ...

The surface of the Earth is composed of tectonic plates that slowly move around over geologic time, creating continents and oceans, and influencing climates. But scientists have debated for decades ...

Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image ...