An astronomical redating of Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night confirmed the artist used real stellar data in his ...

Climate change has erased two millennia of progress toward a new global ice age, potentially validating controversial claims ...

The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly ...

The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly ...

This week, scientists have proposed the first method for detecting “mirror life,” a hypothetical form of synthetic biology that could pose serious environmental and biosecurity risks if ever created.

Forcing a small piece of antimatter into a controlled quantum state may be essential to proving the Standard Model of ...

Scientists reconstruct a 164-foot lake tsunami and reveal how human activity may increase the danger to communities near ...

A new analysis of a mysterious skeleton discovered in a Westminster Abbey sarcophagus in the 1800s has identified two likely ...

What would happen if an asteroid struck the Earth? We spoke with a NASA planetary scientist who is working to find out.

Some of the most important phenomena in the natural world remain unexplored, according to new research revealing a scientific ...

Water behaves very strangely under extreme conditions beyond Earth, according to researchers at the University of Nevada.

Ceramics unearthed by archaeologists excavating a temple in modern Sudan offer new insights into the mysterious ancient ...