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

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

Sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras are slow to reproduce, and scientists believe the process takes a lot of energy. But no one really knows how much, because it’s difficult to measure without harming ...

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

Some 2,200 kilometers beneath our feet lies the outer core, a molten layer of rock that moves constantly. This rotation creates the planet’s natural magnetic field. For decades, scientists had ...

Continuous long-term measurement underground at a mine in northern Ontario provided evidence of sustained accumulation and discharge of natural hydrogen generated within Earth’s crust. Credit: ...

A quark zooms through quark-gluon plasma, creating a wake in the plasma. “Studying how quark wakes bounce back and forth will give us new insights on the quark-gluon plasma’s properties,” Yen-Jie Lee ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

It would be like detecting a hidden inflection in our own Sun’s spectrum, yet no such evidence can be found! Past solar ...