The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is mostly concerned with where to look for technosignatures from another ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical objects that could have formed directly from dense clumps of matter in the very early ...

Want to fly to the moon and help build a permanent lunar base? NASA is accepting applications for a new astronaut class that ...

Tropical ecosystems are famous for their teeming, exuberant diversity. In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from ...

An academic abstract, a blog post and a public outreach article all place different demands on the writer. Readers' prior ...

We typically think of the moon as a static, floating object that has remained the same for basically its entire lifetime, ...

Armed with dozens of motion-sensing cameras, William Grooms spent this past summer documenting wildlife across Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. It was his first field season collecting ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers demonstrated the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a quantum simulation of a lattice gauge theory using a hybrid trapped-ion quantum computer.

An alternative model in which the universe is 26.7 billion years old and needs neither dark matter nor dark energy has held ...

There are at least 14 million insect species on Earth, and they play highly diverse roles in sustaining the natural world.

Private retirement savings are an increasingly important topic in public debate. One popular idea is to phrase savings reminders in one of two ways: either you emphasize what someone stands to lose if ...

The extreme heat waves we have seen over the last few years may only serve as a preview of what is to come as a result of ...