Left-handed people may have a psychological edge in competition. Humanoid robots can now do creepy parkour through the ...

Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering ...

Every time we feel a gentle tap on the skin, specialized nerve cells convert that physical force into an electrical signal ...

Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered that placing magnetic films on atomically thin molybdenum ...

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum ...

Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

The tall black-and-white residents of Antarctica, who waddle around its icy landscape, are in peril thanks to the rapidly ...

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...