Submarine caldera eruptions are difficult to study because their most important processes occur beneath the ocean.

An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 is part of repeated observations to monitor for the ...

When abdominal muscles contract, pressure rises in blood vessels connected to the brain through the spinal column.

The results point to Europe as the birthplace of bats during the late Paleocene. From there, their descendants spread into Africa, before radiating outward into the Americas, Asia, and Australia. This ...

In order to determine the strength of Gravity, scientists employed a torsion balance, a device that is able to detect small ...

The research shows that the human brain is in fact two old nervous systems combined together: one primitive section which ...

Researchers at Caltech have now unveiled a device that can steer one beam of light using another, in just 74 femtoseconds, ...

For decades, scientists have studied blazars, supermassive black holes in distant galaxies whose powerful jets are pointed directly at Earth. Now, for the first time, astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, ...

This artist's concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 is similar to our Milky Way but has a much calmer look. Its thin, smooth spiral arms flow around a bright central region. There are also dust lanes throughout the disk. At ...

For decades, scientists have known that men often lose their Y chromosome in certain cells as they age. Losing the Y ...

When the scientists first spotted the Antarctic ozone hole in the mid-1980s, the discovery had a profound effect on both the scientific community and the general public. A huge hole had appeared in ...