Hydrogen creates a persistent difficulty. Although it is often part of a crystal lattice, standard X-ray diffraction methods ...

Immediately after absorbing light, the material briefly entered an electronic state in which bonds between neighboring sites ...

The thermosphere extends from about 100 to 1,000 kilometers (62 to 621 miles) above Earth. More than 99 percent of the upper ...

While tour operators often argue that visiting Antarctica can heighten tourists’ awareness of environmental issues, former ...

Deep inside a mountain cave in southwestern China, scientists found an animal that appears built for a world where sunlight ...

Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For ...

Clinical trials can track memory, brain scans, and biological markers, but they cannot usually show exactly what happened ...

As expected, those with insomnia experienced more pain and substantially more symptoms of depression than good sleepers.

A bird egg can look surprisingly oversized for the body that produced it. That puzzle becomes even stranger when viewed ...

A perfectly ‘fair’ system may therefore be impossible, but the researchers argue that electoral rules can still be designed to balance these competing goals more effectively. Their findings were ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill traced the discovery to a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

In a randomized clinical trial, researchers found that healthy adults who followed a vegan diet for one month developed ...