The relationship between science and pop culture often looks like a one-way street: scientific discoveries inspire films, ...

As NASA's Artemis II mission completed its lunar flyby, the astronauts sent back a stunning image of the colorful Earth setting behind the moon. This breathtaking photo, called Earthset, draws ...

Rhodium is one of the most powerful catalytic metals known to chemistry. Small amounts of it can drive reactions that produce ...

A recent study by Dr. John Moretti of the University of Texas and local caver John Young uncovered the remains of Ice Age ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, ...

Spiders are among Earth's most resourceful predators, nabbing prey by any means necessary. Orb weavers spin webs for capture. Wolf spiders ambush on the ground at night. Almost all spiders use venom ...

Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe's very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope sharp enough to distinguish an object just 3.5 mm wide ...

On August 19, 2022, solar astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island of Maui ...

In the process of converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals such as ethylene—a key precursor for plastics—a major ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended ...