For two decades, astronomers have puzzled over how supermassive black holes, which are some of the brightest objects in the ...

For roughly two billion years of Earth’s early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required for complex life. Oxygen began building up during the period known a ...

A modeling study shows how under some conditions, increasing numbers of households with rooftop solar panels can lead to higher rates for those without their own solar system. When utility customers ...

A team from the Universities of Nottingham and Ulm has, for the first time, observed how tiny droplets of molten metal can be trapped in an “atomic corral,” remaining liquid at temperatures hundreds ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried ...

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of large parts of the ice sheets ...

In 1980, philosopher John Searle developed a thought experiment in response to AI advancement at the time. His aim was to ...

The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predators in Australia’s ancient Daintree rainforest. Check out how this clumsy ve ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

This economic evaluation found that insurance premiums have increased at 3 times the rate of workers’ earnings since 1999, ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...