In this era of Big Data, the prevailing wisdom is that more information leads to better answers. However, a new Canadian ...

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

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz and other institutes across California and New Mexico have developed a detection system that will ...

An orange-colored yeast species isolated from a Baltimore sidewalk several years ago could be the basis of eco-friendly ...

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, have shown that ...

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

Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists' wish lists. But which ...

Financial markets are governed by a combination of rational and irrational forces, statistical probabilities and "animal ...

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

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

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

Compostable plastics could be part of a solution to the world's plastic waste problem. But currently these materials need ...