NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that ...

Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...