UC Berkeley researchers have found fossil evidence that animals from different latitudes of North America and South America mixed long before the Panamanian land bridge permanently linked the two ...

Black holes are often imagined as bottomless pits, swallowing everything that dares to cross their path. But new observations of a dramatic outburst from the black hole system Swift J1727.8−1613 ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over a cosmic paradox: if supermassive black holes blast out powerful jets that heat their surroundings, how do they keep feeding themselves? New images from the ...

Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo experimentally demonstrate unique optical behavior from a long-sought aperiodic pattern Credit Institute of Industrial ...

Researchers from Drexel University and Penn State University have developed a new hydrogel and can be used to produce durable ...

Betelgeuse, the blazing red supergiant in Orion, has enchanted skywatchers for centuries. One of the brightest stars visible ...

Using Survey data from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury, the researchers studied star formation near M32.

Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image ...

James Watt may very well have paved the way to an age of heat-powered humanity when he perfected steam engines in the 18th century. But today, physicists are taking that legacy and reinventing it at ...

Artificial sweeteners have long been marketed as harmless substitutes for sugar, but new evidence suggests they may not be as physiologically neutral as once believed. A sweeping review and ...

Forests are commonly thought of as arenas dominated by height, where the biggest trees hoard sunlight, hoping to turn their smaller neighbors into shadows. So violent is the competition in these early ...

The ocean floor is constantly growing, forged by magmas and stretched by tectonic forces at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Yet despite their importance, these submarine boundaries remain among the hardest ...