New University of Georgia research suggests that social media could influence people's travel plans. The paper is published ...

A piece of a SpaceX rocket weighing four tonnes (4.4 tons) was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the moon on Wednesday, a collision that posed no danger to Earth but is expected to leave ...

Matt Walker couldn't pet a dog without sneezing—until he and other scientists used a gene editing technique to produce a hypoallergenic beagle named Bailey.

Fires in the Arctic are not solely a regional issue, as shown by the hazy skies in Switzerland last summer despite otherwise sunny weather. Smoke from major fires in northern Canada crossed the ...

Living among large predatory carnivores could actually make you safer. A study published in the journal Current Biology found ...

Researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO), the Max Planck Institute for ...

Virginia Tech chemist and chemical engineer Guoliang "Greg" Liu and his lab have developed a process that converts the ...

Can a crack be supersonic? Can the fracture that triggers an avalanche propagate faster than the limiting velocity predicted by classical fracture mechanics? The question remains the subject of debate ...

From routine surgeries to cancer treatment, modern medicine depends on drugs that can fight infections caused by microbes ...

A new white paper released by experts at the UTS Business School highlights the risks businesses face if they ignore growing ...

A rare fossil discovered near South America's largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species. Initially mistaken for a frog by locals, Leolepis matogrossensis is actually a species of ...

Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study ...