Thanks to lucky snapshots taken by an amateur astronomer in Argentina, scientists have obtained their…
Significant amounts of toxic metals, including lead, leak from some e-cigarette heating coils and are…
The planet Mars has fascinated scientists for over a century. Today, it is a frigid…
A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides…
This view of Saturn looks toward the planet’s night side, lit by sunlight reflected from…
An original state, both solid and liquid at the same time: this is the latest…
Sometimes on a dark night near the poles, the sky pulses a diffuse glow of…
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data…
Astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same…
Chernobyl. Three Mile Island. Fukushima. Accidents at nuclear power plants can potentially cause massive destruction…
Researchers have unlocked the genetic code behind some of the brightest and most vibrant colors…
For the first four billion years of Earth’s history, our planet’s continents would have been…
Researchers from KU Leuven and the universities of Pittsburgh, Stanford, and Penn State (US) have…
For hundreds of years, butterfly collecting has often inspired a special kind of fanaticism, spurring…
The shower of electrons bouncing across Earth’s magnetosphere – commonly known as the Northern Lights…
With their insensitivity to decoherence what are known as Majorana particles could become stable building…
The evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of…
Researchers have found that excess levels of calcium in brain cells may lead to the…