Circularly polarized light has properties that make it useful in a growing range of technologies, from next-generation 3D displays to bioimaging tools that can detect signals deep within living ...

Ganymede is not only Jupiter's largest moon, but also the largest in our solar system and one of the few that hosts a massive ...

Scientists from Trinity and Technical University of Denmark have developed a new radar-based technique that could address a ...

The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

This week, researchers reported that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious ...

Artificial intelligence can dramatically speed up the painstaking work of tracking wildlife with remote cameras, cutting analysis time from months or even a year to just days while producing nearly ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the planet's surface at some 12,333 mph (19,848 kph). The spacecraft will ...

When you hear the term "food insecurity," what do you imagine? Do you equate it with poor dietary practices—in other words, ...

For more than a decade, conservation biologist Steve Boyes searched for "ghost elephants"—nocturnal giants rumored to roam a ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.

A single-atom platinum catalyst lights ammonia at 200 °C and keeps it burning steadily at 1,100 °C with low NOx, generating ...