Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and we die, in exactly that order. We plan our lives around tim…

Whether it's digging up weathered bones from a paleontological site or reexamining forgotten trays in museum and university collections, the study of dinosaurs still throws up something new.

The mystery of a Stone Age teenager's death has been solved — 80 years after he was found in an ancient burial ground in Italy.

A trio of ancient mesas is rewriting what we know about wind, sand, and deep-time geology, captured in stunning detail from space.

On January 15, 2013, I published a comprehensive textbook with my former PhD student, Steve Furlanetto (currently a tenured professor at…

Any time there’s dynamic change, there’s the opportunity for new ideas."

A new study suggests the world's oxygen-depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the centuries to come, despite our increasingly warming climate.

Is AI conscious? Anthropic's conflcited in-house philosopher is surprisingly open to the idea that they can already feel.

An open-source program helps researchers bypass a major bottleneck in the process chemical synthesis.

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that a major part of Greenland's ice cap, the Prudhoe Dome, was completely gone between 6,000 and 8,200 years ago.

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability density of the system or elements of the system. But for a …

The bulge first appeared in 1996 and has now returned, but Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says there's no cause for alarm.

James Webb Space Telescope observations of MoM-z14, an early galaxy that existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

During cocoon phase, young, supermassive black holes are surrounded by high-density gas.

AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some indescribable by science.

"Looking out into the universe is uniquely allowing us to look back in time and piece together this beautiful cosmic story that we are part of."

The crew of four will launch no earlier than Wednesday 11 February at 11:00 GMT/12:00 CET (06:00 EST) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA. The next available opport…

Jupiter’s atmosphere and clouds have mesmerized stargazers for centuries, as their multi-colored, swirling layers can easily be viewed from powerful telescopes on Earth. However, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has upped the ante regarding our understanding of Jupiter…

A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering.

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving belt.

Online discussions can catch errors or fraud in articles that can be missed in peer review.

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants.