A stunningly concentrated and hefty galaxy cluster, from a time in the universe's history when such massive structures aren't ...

Much of Western Europe was sweltering in a grueling heat wave on Friday, with the mercury expected to continue rising in the ...

Need some good news on a Friday after a long week? The Earth may not be engulfed by the expanding fireball of the dying sun, ...

Scientists have demonstrated a noninvasive technique that uses light to reveal the hidden contents of chicken eggs, ...

New research suggests the microbiome near the surface of a plant's roots, known as the rhizosphere microbiome, may play a ...

A James Cook University Ph.D. student's late-night solo survey has led to the first recorded sighting of a microwhip scorpion ...

A new study from Caltech demonstrates that soil bacteria can adapt under stress, particularly when a key nutrient, phosphorus ...

Like humans, wildlife is increasingly vulnerable as climate change fuels longer and more intense heat waves, disrupting ...

More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish.

Malaysian scientists have discovered a new species of parasitic fungus in Borneo's jungles that preys on "zombie fungi" known ...

Belgian scientist Francois Englert, a particle physics specialist who won the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his work on the Higgs boson, has died at 93. The Higgs boson is considered by physicists to be the ...

Superfluids are intriguing states of matter in which particles behave like a giant collective wave, allowing them to flow ...