New Smart Underwear Unlocks the Serious Science of Human Flatulence: It’s giving researchers insights into the microbiome—and you can help.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, space offers a heart-shaped greeting. The star Mira A, about 300 light-years from Earth, has released material into an expanding cloud of gas and dust resembling a heart. Both the amount of material and the speed at which the…

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin was among the facial features Hammett used to describe his fictional detective's appearance, but starting with that distinctive chin w…

New research using a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein presents evidence that the invisible backbone of the universe may be much "fuzzier" than we realized.

Modern armor systems do not do a good enough job of protecting humans from blast-induced neurotrauma (brain and eye damage). To improve them, we may have to look to nature. In particular, a tiny shrimp that is able to protect itself from the shockwaves it gen…

Researchers report the detection of "artificial objects" on the Moon that could help locate a long-lost Soviet spacecraft.

The discovery of the Higgs boson hasn’t led to a explosion of new physics. Now, some scientists think that hidden physics may be hiding beyond LHC’s view.

The planet has a big problem – and this ambitious team has a radical solution.

Scientists have long known that Earth's core is mostly made of iron, but the density is not high enough for it to be pure iron, meaning lighter elements exist in the core, as well. In particular, it's suspected to be a major reservoir of hydrogen. A new study…

NASA engineers are targeting April for an uncrewed Starliner mission, with a crewed flight possible this fall, the agency’s commercial crew manager said Monday.

Footprints that are thousands of years old have been uncovered, what they reveal could shatter the current understanding of human migration.

Boosting mitochondrial metabolism in neurons in central memory circuits by enhancing Ca2+ retention in the mitochondrial matrix is shown to improve long-term memory formation in flies and mice.

Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent estimates put the number of rogue planets at something equivalent t…

A water system activation at the Thad Cochran Test Stand (B-2) on Jan. 30 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, helped capture critical data to support testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) stage expected to fly on the Artemis IV m…

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems.

Researchers in China have isolated the effects of electronic friction, showing for the first time how the subtle drag force it imparts at sliding interfaces can be controlled. They demonstrate that it can be tuned by applying a voltage, or switched off entire…

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based directly on the interactions between their protons and neutrons. Published in Physical Review Letters, the research could help scientists be…

Deep beneath the ocean's waves, where no light reaches and the pressure is crushing, a team of researchers has found life thriving in ways that defy all expectations.

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes referred to as ghost particles. There are three known types (i.e., flavors) of neutrinos, dubbed muon, electron and tau neutrinos.

The creature’s staggering size stunned experts, and its location raises even bigger questions about how Jurassic giants roamed the planet.

The last common ancestor of all living things did not just suddenly appear on Earth roughly 4.2 billion years ago.

GRBs have been puzzling scientists the world 'round for years.

Waterfalls are sites where gravity pulls water down a steep cliff. This setup endows the water with rapid motion as it falls down the…