Despite decades of industrial deposition, nitrogen availability in the boreal forest is steadily declining. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences using decades of unique, stored data have found th…

The eggs were found nearly 50 years ago, the dinosaur embryos inside haven’t moved in 200 million years.

Ukrainian troops cut fiber-optic drone wires they find — even at the risk of disabling their own — to stop Russian attacks.

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These are rare and fleeting high-energy interactions between neu…

One doctor argues that to be healthier, we need to be better at managing our bodies' interactions with gravity.

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean.

It would carry people across 400 years to another star. It would generate its own gravity, grow its own food, and preserve a civilization across generations.

In a new paper (accessible here) that I co-authored with the Italian observer Toni Scarmato, we use images from the Hubble Space Telescope…

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity is at play.

Science News: In a stark and widely reported warning, NASA’s planetary defence chief has revealed that Earth currently has no reliable way to stop thousands of “cit.

A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of removing it as traditionally done, dramatically boosts perfo…

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

Although Earth is approximately spherical, its gravity field doesn't adhere to the same geometry.

Antarctic glacier bleeds red water, and scientists reveal hidden pressure beneath the mysterious millennial ice.

A long-standing chemistry challenge has been solved with the synthesis of a five-atom silicon aromatic ring.

Survival of reef-building oysters peaks at specific combinations of fractal dimension and height that reduce predation, showing how optimal three-dimensional habitat geometry can guide more effective ecosystem restoration.

Nitrogen isotope tree-ring chronologies show that rising atmospheric CO2 has reduced nitrogen availability in boreal forests in Sweden, suggesting that elevated atmospheric CO2 is causing oligotrophication in boreal forests.

An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists have observed quakes that reverse course, further shaking up areas that they passed through only seconds before. These "boomerang" ear…

Forget everything you knew about practice making perfect. New research shows your brain is actually wired to learn faster from rare events than from constant repetition.

Sequencing of marine sediments finds 136 newly identified Heimdallarchaeia and several novel lineages, and indicates that Heimdallarchaeia evolved distinct metabolic capabilities from other Asgardarchaeota, in conditions that may have given rise to early…

The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure the best access to its resources.

Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances infanticide in previously tolerant mice.

"This data provides us with rare insight into how galaxies were transformed in the early universe."

By applying new methods of machine learning to quantum chemistry research, Heidelberg University scientists have made significant strides in computational chemistry. They have achieved a major breakthrough toward solving a decades-old dilemma in quantum chemi…

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang