Mountains preserve evidence of ancient oceans, moving continents and tectonic processes that have shaped Earth over millions ...

Every black hole hides a question at its center. Einstein's theory predicts that whatever falls in is crushed into a ...

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex and, it turns out, more like home than anyone ...

A new study of 4,200 adolescents revealed that cyberbullying rarely occurs in isolation; it almost always functions as an ...

Drought is written into trees, appearing as narrow bands in their annual growth rings. But aspen may go farther, creating ...

A novel nanovesicle-based platform developed at Institute of Science Tokyo can measure hydrostatic pressure by converting ...

Cornell researchers have designed a new, faster form of two-photon fluorescence imaging for observing cell metabolism in real ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown microorganism that has the smallest genome ever found and may be able to ...

Majestic African antelopes known as gemsbok have been roaming the U.S. Southwest since their introduction in the 1960s and ...

Many naturally occurring molecules such as menthol or limonene exist in two mirror-image forms, known as enantiomers, that ...

Parts of Earth's climate system can change abruptly once warming pushes them beyond critical thresholds. The Greenland and ...

The European nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) is a nocturnal migratory bird that travels between Europe and southern Africa ...