Science&technology

The ocean’s circulatory system may not be doing as poorly as previously thought.A vital ocean artery known as the Florida Current, ...

A microbial predator that stalks the waters of the German countryside envelopes its victims and leaves their empty husks behind. The pred ...

Scientists are problem solvers. They devise ways to tap new resources for building electric vehicles and to track stealth movements of en ...

An asteroid hurtling toward Earth could be deflected without a spacecraft ever touching it.The trick is using X-rays to divert the ...

As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters and filaments, weaving ...

By Tom ViceChief Executive Officer, Sierra SpaceWhile the exploration of deep space is critical to advancing our understanding of ...

Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules.Rather than reprodu ...

With roughly 2,000 giant pandas remaining in the wild, scientists have spent the last several decades looking for new ways to help the ic ...

Heat-related deaths in the United States are on the rise. But how bad will it be 20, 30 or 40 years from now? Scientists now have a clue. ...

When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, tur ...

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought.A new temperature timeline th ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynod ...

Some fish have bacteria on the brain.Wild and lab-grown members of the salmon family including European rainbow trout, Chinook sal ...

Some flowers may be using their pollinators as sexual battlegrounds.Red, Brazilian flowers called Hypenea macrantha use projectile ...