A new international study led by Lund University examines what happened to population levels after the Kikai-Akahoya volcanic ...

Qubits, the quantum equivalent of digital bits, are fragile and prone to errors. That makes building reliable quantum ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a ...

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...

The ocean beneath Saturn's moon Enceladus lies under kilometers of ice, but some of its contents do reach the surface. Jets ...

When someone is badly injured, doctors urgently need two facts: the patient's blood type, so that a transfusion is safe, and ...

When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating as much ...

Astronomers using China's FAST radio telescope have discovered a compact cloud of hydrogen with no visible stars or galaxy ...

With about 30 visual pigments, compared to just three in humans, mantis shrimp possess a visual system that remains a mystery ...

Alzheimer's disease is best known for its effects on memory and cognition, but the disease also involves changes in how brain ...

The strong El Niño currently under way in the Pacific Ocean raises the specter of marine heat waves and coral bleaching once ...

Poor access to health care, limited local influence over research priorities and an unequal distribution of scientific ...