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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The cause of future food shortages may not be a lack of farmland, but a shortage of agricultural workers. Amid low birth ...