Motorcycle helmets can be just as stylish as motorcycles themselves, and looking to the aesthetics of the past shows there's plenty of variety on offer.

A research team at King's College London has isolated a new form of aluminum—a highly abundant metal, that could provide a far cheaper and more sustainable alternative to commonly used rare earth metals. Dr. Clare Bakewell, Senior Lecturer in the Department o…

The planet's upper atmosphere has been mapped for the first time, revealing one of the solar system's most enigmatic members.

Archaeologists have uncovered mysterious collections of animal skulls in a Neanderthal cave, raising new questions about their rituals and symbolic practices.

The Great Unconformity — a gap in Earth’s geological record — has puzzled scientists for 150 years. New research suggests it was created by shifting continents, rather than “snowball Earths” or Cambrian life.

A team of scientists led by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), and Leipzig University has developed a new method to track Earth's greenness—a key indicator of vegetation healt…

When honey bees find a good source of food, they return to their hive and perform a waggle dance. It consists of a series of movements that communicate the direction and distance to nectar, pollen or water relative to the sun. For years, scientists had a vagu…

The ability to make two distinct sounds at once is shared with human beatboxers and throat singers.

NASA technology traced the pulsing back to a massive tsunami.

Birds sing at dawn due to built-up energy from nighttime silence. When light returns, they release the energy through intense morning singing.

‘Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

One of the largest stars known in the Universe has done something strange – and scientists are debating what it means.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus Hypoponera and representing the first occurrence of this g…

Satellite spies stunning auroras from orbit during G1 geomagnetic storm.

The moon and Pleiades will glow together on Feb. 23 in a striking skywatching display.

Fifty-seven years ago, three men hurtled toward Earth inside a ball of violet flame, moving faster than any humans before or since.

My dad died young at 56 and never got to retire. The lessons he taught me changed my views on retirement and how I'm planning for my financial future.

New Nature Astronomy study suggests dark matter and neutrinos may interact, easing a long-running mismatch in cosmic measurements.

A dense network of sensors is looking for the fleeting footprints of neutrinos, the most mysterious in the pantheon of known particles.

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

Direct bone dating narrows the extinction window and reshapes a 25-year debate over human–Neanderthal interbreeding.

The total lunar eclipse occurs around the March full moon phase, as the sun, Earth and lunar disk align.

A system of five models helps peer reviewers to write more constructive comments, but it is not yet known whether this strengthens the papers that are being reviewed.

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