Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly sophisticated, sharper displays for electronic ...

Snakes are highly modified lizards, with more than 4,000 living species today. The origin of snakes has long been one of ...

Hong Kong's weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 36.9°C (98°F) on Sunday as Typhoon Dolphin swept warm air ...

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic synthetic particles, many systems in nature and the laboratory ...

This summer, millions of people across the country have been digging out sunscreen to protect themselves from a ...

Boston College scientists have determined that a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27 billion years old and derived ...

Archaeologists have discovered two giant rock scallop beads that push back the clock on the first appearance of these ...

Rice University engineers have developed a new strategy for controlling how therapeutic peptides are released from ...

Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the ...

Composing some 85% of the universe's total mass, dark matter betrays its presence only through gravity, unlike ordinary matter. Yet through new research published in Physical Review D, a team led by ...

Nature is not doing well in Australia. Many unique mammals, birds and insects are struggling. Entire ecosystems are ...

The Perseid summer light show is back—and viewing conditions are especially promising for the Northern Hemisphere.