Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, for example, use the same word hunden, meaning "the …

“Everything seems to be organized and has to be chaperoned to make sure the kids are all right,” lamented one frustrated parent.

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s oldest known murder victim and its most ancient mummy, had previously been reconstructed as light-skinned and hairy. Read the best ...

Meteors streaked across the sky over Idaho overnight into Sunday, August 13, as the Perseid meteor shower reached its peak.

Among the many hazards encountered by space probes, exposure to radiation and huge temperature swings pose particular challenges for their electronic circuits. Now KAUST researchers have invented the first ever flash memory device made from gallium oxide, a m…

The rover has left behind the boulder field, and we’re currently investigating an enigmatic sedimentary rock unit that was spotted by Ingenuity during its 52nd flight.

A new study led by researchers at Brown University offers fresh insights into the forces above and beneath the ocean surface that influence how sea ice moves and disperses in the Arctic Ocean, which is warming at over twice the rate of the global average.

How was the Earth born? See more in this 2 hour marathon from How the Earth Was Made.#HowTheEarthWasMadeSubscribe for more from How the Earth Was Made and ot...

Another solar eclipse is coming in April 2024, but Colorado will miss most of the show

The ability to sense mechanical stimuli, like touch or blood pressure, is essential to physiological processes in humans and across the animal kingdom. In a new study, Scripps Research scientists show how the sensory ion channel PIEZO1 changes shape in respon…

The agency is reviewing the report now.

A Princeton University-led team of scientists has imaged the precise microscopic underpinnings responsible for many quantum phases observed in a material known as magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG). This remarkable material, which consists of twiste…

The 11-year-old rover continues to ascend to new heights.

Researchers show it’s possible to make photons that cross paths interact, paving the way for technology breakthroughs. A research team at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) has demonstrated that it is possible to mani…

As if things weren't bad enough, now we have to worry about the Sun getting irritable? According to scientists, it's a concern.

The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has halted production after controversies over ethics and accuracy in reporting, spurred further this morning by accusations of sexual harassment experienced at the company.

Can you recognize someone you haven't seen in years, but forget what you had for breakfast yesterday? Our brains constantly rearrange their circuitry to remember familiar faces or learn new skills, but the molecular basis of this process isn't well understood.

Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at UBC's BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins—natural plant compounds that make your mouth pucker if you bite into an unripe fruit—to a layer of wood dust, y…

NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft has completed its flybys of Pluto and Arrakoth and is now about 8 billion kilometers from Earth. Although astronomers are looking for another Kuiper Belt target, they can send it towards; the spacecraft is perfectly positioned t…

Human-caused climate change is shortening the snow cover period in the Arctic. But according to new research led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine, some parts of the Arctic are getting deeper snowpack than normal, and that dee…

A nuclear weapons expert breaks down the infamous nuke explosion scene from Indiana Jones 4, revealing that it actually got some things right.

Giant dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska can last for many days and send tons of fine sediment or silt into the atmosphere, and it is having an impact on the global climate system, say scientists.

The Artemis 4 crew will include one European astronaut.

Astronomers have confirmed the age of Maisie's galaxy, which existed when the Universe was just 390 million years old, making it one of the earliest ever seen.