For years, scientists believed that the retreat of Arctic sea ice would supercharge ocean productivity. More sunlight pouring into the water was expected to fuel plankton growth, strengthening the ...

One of the major challenges in deciphering Ice Age bones is resolving a conflict in the records between what they say, that ...

The vibrations of atoms in a crystal generate one type of rotation, an intrinsic spin-like trait called angular momentum. For ...

Beamforming, introduced in WiFi 5, works by having devices share details about how signals travel through their environment.

Some 2,200 kilometers beneath our feet lies the outer core, a molten layer of rock that moves constantly. This rotation creates the planet’s natural magnetic field. For decades, scientists had ...

Continuous long-term measurement underground at a mine in northern Ontario provided evidence of sustained accumulation and discharge of natural hydrogen generated within Earth’s crust. Credit: ...

Sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras are slow to reproduce, and scientists believe the process takes a lot of energy. But no one really knows how much, because it’s difficult to measure without harming ...

Quantum computing is racing ahead, with potentially huge implications for cryptography, materials science, chemistry, and AI. But today’s quantum processors are still too small to simulate all but the ...

Gold has long been prized for its stability, but in the world of chemistry, that stability of gold is precisely what has caused the problem. The process of oxygen activation, the first step in many ...

With every cycle of a gas-powered engine, three-quarters of the energy in the fuel goes out as heat through the exhaust and into the atmosphere. A ...

A new clinical trial, published in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition, found that eating 6–7 ounces of beef every ...

It would be like detecting a hidden inflection in our own Sun’s spectrum, yet no such evidence can be found! Past solar ...