NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light…
A sign that aliens could stink: A molecule that’s known for its smelly and poisonous…
The regrowth of Amazonian forests following deforestation can happen much slower than previously thought, a…
A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has…
NASA’s next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its…
Researchers at EPFL have developed an ultra-light robotic insect that uses its soft artificial muscles…
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of…
Humankind will need to harness carbon capture and storage technologies to help keep global warming…
Oceans of magma may limit the amount of Neptune-sized exoplanets, study finds. For many years,…
Password meters are frequently made available to help users secure their personal data against the…
The researchers combined data across North America and Europe using a meta-analysis, a way of…
A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite image…
Despite having completed its mission in orbit over six years ago, ESA’s GOCE gravity mapper…
Jupiter’s south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred…
Despite being four times thicker than human hair, elephant hair is only half as strong—that’s…
Silicon integrated circuits, which are used in computer processors, are approaching the maximum feasible density…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic…
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from…