Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...

Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

Platypuses are the first mammals known to have hollow melanosomes, pigment-bearing structures found in the hair of many animals.

When combined with clinical markers, smartwatch data was able to help detect insulin resistance with nearly 90 percent ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that ...

Levels of six RNA molecules in the blood ID’d older adults likely to survive two more years. Whether it will work for other ...

An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing ...

Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...