One of the major challenges in deciphering Ice Age bones is resolving a conflict in the records between what they say, that ...

Most of the infectious diseases that trouble humans today actually began in animals. These are called zoonotic pathogens, meaning they jumped from animals to humans at some point in history. Long ...

Gold has long been prized for its stability, but in the world of chemistry, that stability of gold is precisely what has caused the problem. The process of oxygen activation, the first step in many ...

The vibrations of atoms in a crystal generate one type of rotation, an intrinsic spin-like trait called angular momentum. For ...

Beamforming, introduced in WiFi 5, works by having devices share details about how signals travel through their environment.

With every cycle of a gas-powered engine, three-quarters of the energy in the fuel goes out as heat through the exhaust and into the atmosphere. A ...

A new clinical trial, published in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition, found that eating 6–7 ounces of beef every ...

A back molar found in a Siberian cave is believed to be the oldest evidence of dental treatment. About 59,000 years ago, someone carefully ...

For a long time, scientists have known that cells don’t just wander as tissues grow. They follow invisible “chemical maps.” These maps are made of signalling molecules that spread out in gradients, ...

Astronomers have spotted a blue straggler orbiting a brown dwarf, the first known system of its kind ever seen. This ...