A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

L urking in the cooling canals of a Florida nuclear power plant, an unlikely population of American alligators has taken up residence and continues to thrive. Fear not – the crocodiles aren’t glowing, ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

B oiling an egg feels like walking a tightrope: misjudge it by just a fraction and you’ll end up with either a snot-like ...

The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not gone away just yet. The near-Earth object was discovered in December and calculations ...

The team, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, designed an experiment to test escape behavior in ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study ...

A vian flu first made the jump from birds into dairy cows on farms in a number of US states in spring 2024. Until now, all ...

Do you feel like the day greets you at your best, that you’re at your brightest as you rise from bed but gradually feel less ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...