What if you could create new materials just by shining a light at them? To most, this sounds like science fiction or alchemy, but to physicists investigating the burgeoning field of Floquet engineering, this is the goal. With a periodic drive, like light, sci…

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic mystery.

With unprecedented resolution, wavelength sensitivity, and light-gathering power, JWST reveals our cosmos like no other observatory ever.

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal interactions in ways that could help us treat drug-resistant infections.

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon, Enceladus. Published in Icarus, the results show that these conditions can readily produce many of the organic com…

UC Riverside led mouse study finds microplastics affect male and female offspring differently. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have reported for the first time that a father’s exposure to microplastics (MPs) can lead to metabolic proble…

A frozen chemical thought to be deadly is now revealing unexpected powers, scientists didn’t see this one coming.

Scientists have found fossil bones that could dethrone lucy as our most famous ancestor.

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond.

Garter snakes can survive being frozen solid for hours. Here’s how evolution, biochemistry and behavior have allowed them to cheat winter.

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into stars and planets outside our solar system.

With the moon out of the way on Jan. 18, bright Jupiter and Saturn become stand-outs in the January night sky.

New science suggests why monkeys and other primates engage in same-sex relations

Considered one of the most important human skeletons ever found in North America, the Kennewick man sparked debate about the first inhabitants of the continent.

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

The 4-mile trek could begin as early as 7 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) on Saturday (Jan. 17).

A new map of the landscape beneath the continent's ice sheet reveals a previously undiscovered terrain.

Scientists uncover the genetic “off switches” that made humans lose their fur.

While exploring a quiet beach in northern Morocco, a team of scientists spotted what looked like ancient human footprints in the sand.

NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien life.

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on climate models. These models, in turn, are based on data from past geological times in which the CO2 content in the Earth's atmosphere chan…

We're closer to the Sun than we’ll be for the next 12 months. But instead of heatwaves, we get… snowstorms?

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is what humans are.

"It really shows how much we still have to learn about planets, even in our own solar system."

Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped roughly 41,000 years ago.