The supermassive stars, dubbed 'celestial monsters', are believed to have existed only 440 million years after the Big Bang.

Despite years of effort and advances in understanding how salinity tolerance works in plants, very few salt-tolerant crops have been released for commercial use.

In July 2021, central China's Henan Province experienced an extraordinary event—a prolonged heavy rainfall period marked by record-breaking hourly rain rates and substantial precipitation accumulation.

UC San Diego scientists develop an interactive software that enables scientists to better investigate the DNA damage response.

The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This concentrated group of stars lies around 26,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.

Archaeologists in Armenia have unearthed the remains of a 3,000-year-old bakery that still contains heaps of wheat flour.

After flying ten astronaut crews into Earth orbit, SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is landing... on toy store shelves. Matchbox, the classic die-cast toy brand, has released a miniature model of the commercial space capsule.

The National Science Foundation's Inouye Solar Telescope's images highlight an assortment of sunspots and peaceful regions of the Sun.

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has presented preliminary findings suggesting there can be a surge of brain activity linked to consciousness during the dying process. ...

The meteoroid fireball, which gave off a neon green hue as it hurtled through the atmosphere, lit up the sky upon impact, startling citizens.

An Earth-sized exoplanet 90 light years away may be covered in active volcanoes — and home to extraterrestrial life.

An engineering team has unveiled a game-changing prototype ‘metamaterial’ that wields electrical signals to command both the direction and intensity of energy waves passing through a solid material, paving the way for transformative applications in military, …

Scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed a method to detect misfolded proteins more rapidly and sensitively. The technique could

This snake-looking machine is expected to explore oceans on Saturn’s moon and other inaccessible locations

Echidnas are shy creatures, and even individuals without albinism are rarely seen in the wild.

Relativity! Extremely well supported by the evidence, and extremely inconvenient for SF authors who want jaunts to the galactic core to be as easy as popping down the road. Given a universe so larg…

The Arecibo Telescope was an amazing tool for astronomers. Built in the early 1960s, it had a 1,000-foot-wide dish and was capable of both receiving and transmitting radio signals. It did radar mapping of near-Earth asteroids, Venus, and the moon, discovered …

Incredible video captured at an Australian airport shows a meteor shooting across the night sky over the weekend.

The team used the Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments machine (MAGPIE) to simulate the disc spin of a black hole.

Chiral spin liquids are one of the most fascinating phases of matter ever imagined by physicists. These exotic liquids exhibit quasi-particles known as non-Abelian anyons that are neither bosons nor fermions, and whose manipulation could allow for the realiza…

Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person's visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of 2. A new study from Lund University in Sweden, published in Scie…

Top 5 gadgets that are making classrooms and students smarter Interactive whiteboards have replaced traditional blackboards in many classrooms. They engage students through touchscreens multimedia and interactive activities. Interactive Whiteboards It also pr…

Academics at the University of Leeds believe they could have found the answer to a long-running mystery behind Jupiter's famous "stripes."

Here is a list per type of mammal, and the total number of outbreaks or cases reported to the WOAH per country.