New Research Shows Life Could Be Common Throughout the Multiverse
A Multiverse – where our Universe is only one of many – might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new…
A Multiverse – where our Universe is only one of many – might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new…
NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled…
A 180 million-year-old fossil has shed light on how some ancient crocodiles evolved into dolphin-like animals. The specimen – featuring a large portion of backbone…
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, after hydrogen, and is a major constituent of the gas-giant planets in our Solar System….
More than 27 million people in the United States are living with type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As…
An international team of astronomers has used ESO telescopes to investigate a relic of the primordial Solar System. The team found that the unusual Kuiper…
Scientists agree the sun will die in approximately 10 billion years, but they weren’t sure what would happen next…until now. A team of international astronomers,…
Researchers have pieced together the three-dimensional skull of an iconic, toothed bird that represents a pivotal moment in the transition from dinosaurs to modern-day birds….
By aiming intense X-ray beams at iron samples, scientists have studied the cores of “super-Earth” planets triple the size of Earth. The team, led by…
Mercury is small, fast, and close to the sun, making the rocky world challenging to visit. Only one probe has ever orbited the planet and…
Plants have provided a new avenue in curbing tumor growth. On this occasion, it doesn’t involve miracle species or the like, but rather the results…
The ALMA and APEX telescopes have peered deep into space — back to the time when the Universe was one tenth of its current age…
An international team of physicists has managed for the first time to experimentally observe a transition between two different states of matter: a propagating polariton-soliton…
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus – as has been long debated,…
Physicists at the University of Warwick have published new research in the Journal of Science that could literally squeeze more power out of solar cells…
Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth more than a decade ago provide compelling evidence of a lost planet that once roamed our solar…
The pull-up, an exercise dreaded by most, answers a basic question: are your muscles strong enough to lift your own body weight? Some Illinois researchers…
A tiny layer of graphene flakes becomes a deadly weapon and kills bacteria, stopping infections during procedures such as implant surgery. This is the finding…