More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish.

Oils from crops such as coconut, palm oil and soybean are used in a range of applications, from cosmetics and makeup to ...

Physicists in China have observed five phases in localization physics within a single quantum system. Using an advanced ...

A new Special Report in the journal BioScience introduces the Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP), a student-led, ...

A chance discovery at Nagoya University in Japan has shown that a well-known brain enzyme has a hidden ability: It builds a ...

Billions of years ago, environmental conditions on Mars were significantly more hospitable than they are today. Our ...

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe, releasing more energy in just a few ...

Off Oman's coast lives a small population of just over 80 Arabian Sea humpback whales (ASHWs). They are classified as ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts ...

Experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) require breathtaking precision. Each ...

A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar ...

Imagine returning to a favorite hiking trail 15 years after your first visit and discovering that many of the plants and ...