They have a fearsome reputation, but could sharks soon be helping to save many more human lives than the ten or so they take each year?

A new X-ray technique to measure temperatures in combustion flames could lead to cleaner biofuels.

Capstone is in safe mode as its team tries to figure out what sent it tumbling.

Marine heat waves have decimated corals in recent years and the future looks bleak for tropical reefs if the pace of climate change continues at current rates.

Not everything needs to be seen to be believed; certain things are more readily heard, like a train approaching its station. In a recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters, researchers have put their ears to the rail, discovering a new property of sc…

Researchers have discovered a new property of scattering amplitudes based on their study of sound waves through solid matter. It is common lore that, when the momentum or energy of one of the scattered particles goes to zero, scattering amplitudes should alwa…

On Saturday, ground crews at Kennedy Space Center prepared for a second attempt to launch NASA's massive, next-generation moon rocket on its first voyage, in the hopes that the engineering issues that

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that it will support the efforts of a collaborative group of researchers, led by Elizabeth Vierling, Di

Following the Sept. 10 update on CAPSTONE, mission owner and operator Advanced Space has provided an update on the mission. Read the full update from Advanced Space.

As elementary schoolers, we learned the order of the planets. Maybe your teacher even had a snappy mnemonic like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" or "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos" after Pluto was axed from the planetary li…

Scientists have tinkered with bacteria to create a new possible source of solar energy that can replicate itself and absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way

If evolutionary biologist Terence D. Capellini were to rank the body parts that make us quintessentially human, the pelvis would place close to the top.

About 270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles separate us from the edge of the observable universe. It will take 480,000,000,000,000,000 — or 4.8 1017 — years, or 35 million times the age of the universe, to get there if you travel at a constant 65 miles per ho…

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, Yale University and Penn State University refined and used an X-ray technique to me

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the leading cause of end-stage renal disease. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) is a network structure composed of loose ch

Climate change limits the forest canopy's cooling response • Earth.com

A new study led by Oregon State University suggests leaves in forest canopies are not able to cool themselves below the surrounding air temperature, likely meaning trees' ability to avoid damaging temperature increases, and to pull carbon from the atmosphere,…

Determining what killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period has long been the topic of debate, as scientists set out to determine what caused the five mass extinction events that reshaped life on planet Earth in a geological…

Researchers engineer the first sustainable chromosomal alterations in mice. In nature, evolutionary chromosomal changes may take a million years, but scientists have recently reported a novel technique for programmable chromosome fusion that has successfully …

Potential source of H2SO4 remains unclear in the atmosphere. This work first demonstrates that the formation of photoinduced •OH radical can directly promote the heterogeneous conversion of SO2 to H2SO4 on real diesel soot under light irradiation, extending t…

Tens of thousands of people flocked to Oregon in 2017 to stand in the path of the solar eclipse. In 2023, they’ll have the chance to do it again.

Sorry, NASA would never name a Uranus mission Seymore Butts.

It is quite logical to imagine that if Jupiters orbit is tweaked in any manner, the planet with massive gravity will have an effect on orbits of other planets in the Solar System. Read on to know how it will affect life on Earth