Scientists have created a programmable material that gives engineers unprecedented control over heat, with potential ...

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Thirty-one newly discovered ancient quasars are giving scientists their clearest view yet of the universe's earliest giant ...

Deep, clean convective clouds can reach high supersaturation levels that may allow aerosols to intensify cloud growth.

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

A minimally invasive procedure that targets inflamed blood vessels is giving many people with chronic knee pain lasting ...

Scientists have uncovered a possible new route by which “jumping genes” move between species. Credit: Shutterstock. A jumping ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to ...

Possible interactions between dark matter and neutrinos may help explain a persistent mismatch in how cosmic structure evolved.

Researchers have uncovered a key mechanism that helps aging cells stop dividing before they can become cancerous, identifying the DNA damage sensor ATM as the central player in this process. Credit: ...

A black hole shredded a massive star in a record-breaking explosion, but what astronomers discovered afterward may be even ...