The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

A fast-moving ancient crocodile ancestor gets a name honoring the physics teacher who inspired its discoverer.

Current capacitors often require dedicated cooling loops to keep them operating within a safe temperature range. If the ...

Credit: NASA. The dark plains of the Moon, known as maria, were once thought of as a geological retirement home. These vast ...

For an animal smaller than a paper clip, the first journey of a newborn dunnart is astonishing. Moments after birth, each baby—no heavier than a grain of rice—must crawl across its mother’s fur to ...

“Our study shows that while all three dietary approaches reduced inflammation, the synbiotic — combining fermented kefir with a diverse prebiotic fiber mix — had the most powerful and wide-ranging ...

The footage was captured by a camera operated by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, which studies life in some of the deepest, least-visited parts of the ocean. The camera was positioned near ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build evolutionary trees from hundreds of anatomical traits—hip sockets, vertebrae, ...

In humans, chronic high blood pressure forces the heart to work too hard. The muscle of the left ventricle thickens in defense, a condition called hypertrophy. Eventually, this leads to fibrosis, ...

Earth’s core has often been described as just a giant ball of iron and nickel. Now, a new study argues that it is also a major storage place for hydrogen, possibly equivalent to dozens of oceans’ ...

One term attempts to tie these threads together: “greedflation.” A blend of “greed” and “inflation,” this term suggests that ...