Science&technology

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies repo ...

Cats may seem solid, but they’re actually somewhat liquid — at least according to one 2017 theoretical physics paper inspired by videos o ...

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might host li ...

Human sniffs last between one and three seconds. During that time, chemicals enter the nose and allow us to perceive the smells around us ...

Wind ownership is up for grabs.As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two years creating wind ma ...

Cancer-busting particle beams have been caught in the act.Particle beams can provide a blast of destructive energy directly to tum ...

A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the “man-eaters of Tsavo.” To be sure, the big cats hu ...

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, a ...

On a trip to Siberia in 2019, cognitive scientist Pablo Fernandez Velasco attended a raffle drawing with the region’s Evenki reindeer her ...

The words “herpes” and “spread” in the same sentence don’t typically spell good news. Unless, that is, you’re talking about a busybody ne ...

CHICAGO — Big news for fighting sisters: Scientists have found the sensors that signal the painful zing of a hair pull. And this pain mes ...

Dozens of fugitive stars were caught fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The swarm of speeding stars cou ...

Two newly discovered fossils are helping scientists wrap their heads around the anatomy of the largest arthropod of all time — a milliped ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean th ...