A nanomechanical device can lose much of its ability to sustain vibrations without ever touching another object. Researchers ...

A new water-treatment technology could offer a breakthrough in the fight against forever chemicals. Scientists have developed ...

For more than 150 years, scientists believed that enormous crane bones found in European caves belonged to a giant bird ...

The researchers placed tiny crystals of manganese telluride and iron sulfide between two titanium plates and applied mechanical pressure. They then used neutron diffraction at ORNL’s Spallation ...

A mysterious millipede first collected nearly 90 years ago has resurfaced in South Australia. A millipede first collected ...

Using Hubble in a new observing configuration, the team also identified a previously unseen warp in the dust halo surrounding Beta Pictoris. The distortion may result from the gravitational influence ...

Unlike emissions from burning fossil fuels, the CO 2 humans exhale largely comes from carbon recently absorbed from the atmosphere by plants and transferred through food. Burning coal, oil, and ...

As today’s oceans lose oxygen, Alaskan rocks trace a similar decline that began millions of years before the end-Triassic mass extinction. Dinosaurs survived the end-Triassic mass extinction 201 ...

The medieval world may have produced far more stories of knights, legendary heroes, and epic adventures than historians will ever recover. A new study suggests that up to 60% of medieval chivalric ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have uncovered a promising way to help surviving nerve cells compensate for damage caused by ALS and other motor neuron diseases. The loss of tongue control ...

Men are 1.5 to 2 times more likely than women to develop Parkinson’s disease, yet the biological reasons remain poorly understood. New research suggests that differences in gene activity within the ...

Researchers have identified a possible subtype of depression linked to disruptions in the body’s internal clock. Credit: Shutterstock For some people with hard-to-treat depression, the body’s internal ...