It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that’s what happened in UMD’s Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable looking building on the northeast corner of campus. If you visit…

Aetosaurs had a small head and a crocodile-like body. The land dwellers were up to six meters long and widely distributed geographically. They died out about 204 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic. In Germany, an assemblage of 24 Aetosaurus ferratu…

What do your worries about public health have to do with your financial well-being? Maybe a lot more than you realize, according to new research from Colorado State University's College of Business.

The 1-meter asteroid was discovered just hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere and almost 10 years to the day that an asteroid about 20 times bigger hit Chelyabinsk, Russia.

The ways in which particles, such as sand or liquid droplets, behave during various mechanical processes is well studied.

Astrophysicists use gravitational waves and light to trace genealogies of dead stars.

Astronomers know that galaxies grow over time through mergers with other galaxies. We can see it happening in our galaxy. The Milky Way is slowly absorbing the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. For the first time, …

Elon Musk, together with the space technologies company SpaceX, of which he is the CEO, launched the Roadster vehicle of Tesla, the automobile company of which he is also the CEO, into space five year

The geologist Josep M. Parés, Geochronology and Geology Program Coordinator at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Geobios about the first geochronological data for th…

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill used chiral phonons to convert wasted heat into spin information—without needing magnetic materials. The finding could lead to new classes of less expensive, …

Millions of lakes right in our backyard serve as windows into Earth’s origins

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf star – the surviving core of a burned-out sunlike star. Researchers found that the white dwarf is 56 percent of the mass…

Groundbreaking new research has successfully documented that fish think “it’s me” upon seeing themselves in a picture.

Telomeres, mitochondria and inflammation work together – this could lead to interventions to offset the harmful consequences of aging.

A massive new composite released earlier this year reveals a confounding number of stars in the Milky Way.

New technique could be important for applications in photon-based information processing

The moon almost photobombed the Sunday (Feb. 12) SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that took place with Starlink satellites on board.

Communities of microbes that work together release more carbon dioxide than competitive communities, contributing more to climate change.

This review discusses the principles of phase separation and highlights how it impacts diverse processes in fungi.

The 'largest penguin ever to exist' could match the US basketball star for physical attributes, reveals a new study from experts at the University of Cambridge.

Measurements of the magnetic moment of the electron have achieved unprecedented accuracy, showing great potential for the search for physics beyond the standard model.

The East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) is a major component of the East Asian monsoon circulation, and its intensity is closely linked to the volume of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets (NHIS) on orbital timescale.