Even the driest desert air carries a little moisture. Not much, of course, but enough that scientists have spent years trying to trap it, ...

The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

Even the driest desert air carries a little moisture. Not much, of course, but enough that scientists have spent years trying ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers working deep in Uganda's Kibale National Park watched something unsettling unfold. The Ngogo chimpanzees, one of the ...

Caption:MIT researchers created a periodic table of machine learning that shows how more than 20 classical algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse ...

Extremely precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Coma cluster of galaxies provide new evidence for the Universe’s faster-than-expected rate of expansion. (Photo courtesy ...

A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Credit Yaakov Weiss The chemical mood of Earth’s mantle, its ...

Aqua-Fi would use radio waves to send data from a diver’s smart phone to a "gateway" device attached to their gear, which would send the data via a light beam to a computer at the surface that is ...

Researchers at the Johannes Kepler University Linz have developed a new technology aimed at enabling autonomous energy, which is crucial for keeping power systems running independently for extended ...

Lucid dreams occur when a person is aware they are dreaming while still in the dream state. This phenomenon happens during REM sleep and has numerous potential applications, from solving physiological ...

The two Yunxian skulls used in the study were highly distorted, but Xijun Ni and his colleagues were able to reconstruct them using 3D modelling. ©Mr. Guanghui Zhao In the quiet bends of the Han River ...

Imagine a type of matter where particles are arranged in a neat crystal pattern but can flow without friction. This peculiar state is called a supersolid, requiring particles to share a common phase ...