Brian Nord, an MLK Visiting Scholar in the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science, trains machines to explore the cosmos and fights for equity in research.

Researchers say gravitational waves could have been so strong in the early universe that gravity itself was able to create light.

To become United States' first-ever mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth, NASA OSIRIS-REx must make all the right moves to shoot the sample return c...

Are you feeling off lately? Maybe experiencing some unusual symptoms that you just can't seem to shake off? It's possible that you might be dealing with symptoms of metabolic acidosis.

We will never look at Uranus the same way again.

On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With concerns about food security on the rise, experts are asking: How will we feed everyone? Climate change, natural resource depletion, soil erosion, and fossil fuel use in farming make th…

On Oct. 11, 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spent over 20 hours observing the long-studied Hubble Ultra Deep Field for the first time. The general observer program (GO 1963) focused on analyzing the field in wavelengths between approximately 2 and 4 m…

An international team of researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) and Monash University (Australia) has just published the results of the analysis of data from the SPHERE instrument of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which confirms a new pr…

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You may have seen alarmist warnings on the internet, but here we dive into the science and talk to experts about if you should worry about raw cut onions.

A study of the Marinoan ice age suggests that microalgae thrived and may have helped keep Earth a slushball rather than a snowball.

A neurological illness known as sensory processing disorder (SPD) affects how the brain processes sensory data.

Field research resolves long-standing question of where painted lady butterflies spend the European winter.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have designed a robotic hand that can grasp and hold objects using only the movement of its wrist.The 3D printed mo...

Europe's Pleiades Neo satellite was built to observe Earth in detail.

A rare double quasar system 10 billion light-years away could help astronomers uncover the secrets of the early universe.

Researchers can "clearly see features of this invisible world that are hundreds of millions of light-years across."

In a large joint project, a total of six research groups from the University of Cologne Cluster of Excellence on Cellular Stress Responses in Age-Associated Diseases (CECAD), the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging (MPI) in Cologne and the University of…

Since ancient times, mankind has tried to tailor materials by combining different substances. Imagine a world where materials properties could be flexibly changed on demand by simply shining light onto them. A group of physicists from across Europe has now ma…

A National Fish Museum and Repository with a collection of 1,900 fish species from across India is set to open on April 14 in Lucknow on the campus of the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources. The institute said it is the first fish museum and repos…

It may be more likely than ever that the next mega-earthquake is going to happen in the PNW — and a hole in the bottom of the sea may provide clues.

For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.

The party-poopers cutting the cable bacteria are researchers from the Center for Electromicrobiology (CEM) at Aarhus University. The center's work focuses on unraveling the mysteries of how cable bacteria work.

It's been said that a rug can really tie a room together. In a similar fashion, Manoochehr Shirzaei and his research team are hoping that weaving together millions of data points into terrain-covering, digital maps can help connect the realities of sinking la…

A NASA X-ray instrument has provided a new view of one of astronomy's most beautiful objects, the Crab Nebula.