The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research by the Global Carbon ...

The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers—the largest such population ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense maelstrom of the early universe has puzzled physicists for decades.

It's still one of the coolest things I ever saw. I was in the U.S. Air Force in the 90s, and November 1998 saw me deployed to ...

Scientists at EMBL Grenoble and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have developed a new method for using in ...

Apple trees, like many perennial plants, endure a prolonged juvenile stage before reaching maturity, during which they ...

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a novel nanotechnology-based solution for the ...

A new computational method can identify how cause-and-effect relationships ebb and flow over time in dynamic real-life ...

All animals, large or small, have to move at an incredible precision to interact with the world. Understanding how the brain ...