Mycena invasion might actually be a good thing for young, healthy plants.

Sperm cells are swimming in a way that is defying Newton's age-old law of motion, causing much confusion to physicists. According to Newton's Third Law of Motion, every action in nature produces an equal and opposite reaction. This implies that all pairs of b…

This mega sea predator lived 170 million years ago and gobbled up everything in sight, says study

Ever watch a viral video and wonder, “How’d they do that?” In the case of a recent viral video of a trumpeter playing into a tube that’s on fire, making the ...

The study has interesting implications for how our planet formed and what's up with our mysterious core

Found in a Spanish landfill, the fossils of the extinct species Pierolapithecus catalaunicus may reveal important clues about our origins.

Researchers have used a special crystal to bend the trajectory of light like a black hole would, a phenomenon known as 'pseudogravity.'

Science News: NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which recently successfully deposited a sample of asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert, is struggling to open the canister

A new innovation will enable LIGO to surpass the quantum limit when squeezing light to "see" more black hole and neutron star collisions.

Scientific Reports - UV spectrophotometric methods for simultaneous determination of ketorolac tromethamine and olopatadine hydrochloride: Application of multiple standard addition for assay of...

An analysis of 30 diverse kingfisher species identifies genomic signatures associated with their convergent feeding behaviors, including plunge-diving.

New analysis of Moon samples brought by the Apollo 17 mission suggests that the Moon is older than we initially thought.

A dormant supervolcano in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains lets off the occasional earthquake swarm, but new evidence suggests it's simmering down.

If you've ever belly-flopped into a pool, then you know: water can be surprisingly hard if you hit it at the wrong angle. But many species of kingfishers dive headfirst into water to catch their fishy prey. In a new study in the journal Communications Biology…

NASA scientists are struggling to open OSIRIS-REx's primary sample container, but the mission has already exceeded the agency's goal of bringing at least 60 ...

Following the conclusion of an independent evaluation that the existing Mars Sample Return (MSR) design has a "unrealistic" budget and timeline, NASA has beg...

Having worked with NASA, Elon Musks SpaceX will now launch satellites for the European Space Agency, or ESA. SpaceX is planning two Falcon rocket launches, each carrying two Galileo satellites

This alarming finding suggests that the contribution of Antarctica to global sea level rise could increase significantly in the coming decades.

Scientists from a number of missions orbiting the Red Planet studied their satellite data to try to determine the cause of the magnitude 4.7 quake.

Abstract. We report LOFAR and VLA detections of extended radio emission in the spiral galaxy HCG 97b, hosted by an X-ray bright galaxy group. The extended radio

Abstract. At least one major merger is currently taking place in the Milky Way (MW). The Sgr dwarf galaxy is being tidally destroyed while orbiting around the M

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The uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will carry several projects to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

With their whip-like tails, human sperm propel themselves through viscous fluids, seemingly in defiance of Newton's third law of motion, according to a new study that characterizes the motion of these sex cells and single-celled algae.