Analysis of the asexually reproducing Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its sexually reproducing progenitors Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia latipinna reveals that it maintains a divergent mutational landscape and has evaded functional mutational decay via gen…

Reflect Orbital's proposal has sparked significant disapproval among some scientists, who fear disruptions for all living things.

New research reveals that bed bugs strongly avoid water and moisture. People often dread bed bugs, and for good reason. Once these blood-feeding insects establish themselves inside a home, they can be extremely difficult to eliminate. However, new research ha…

A pangenome reference for the phenotypically diverse crop sorghum aims to help accelerate future efforts to breed crops that are better adapted to changing environments.

The MOTHRA telescope will use over a thousand lenses and narrowband filters to detect faint hydrogen gas linking galaxies.

A new study revisits a century-old question about how turbulence starts. The findings could potentially influence not only aircraft engineering but even the design of mechanical heart valves, and treatment of heart disease. The study is published in Scientifi…

"This is convincing proof that not all neutron star–black hole pairs share the same origin."

Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device that can dynamically control the "handedness" of light as it passes through—also known as its optical chirality—with a simple twist o…

For decades, scientists suspected the Sahara wasn’t always as dry as it is today. Now, evidence preserved deep underground inside an ancient cave is finally providing answers.

Once again, we are reminded to cherish Earth’s liquid water – there may be no alternatives.

Far above Earth’s storms, astronauts spotted a brief flash of light that appeared where lightning is not supposed to exist.

We've lost the ability to hold our booze, among other things.

Sunday night, around 7:00 PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on the region around Koblenz. One of the largest kn…

New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, primarily in children but also in adults. In a study published …

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

NASA citizen scientists have identified a fast-moving object traveling at 1 million miles per hour

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on upheaval within NASA last year.

Researchers found a protein that stops aging, and it might just let humans reach 200 years old very soon.

"At first, we thought something was wrong with the camera."

Ghostly, invisible, and happening above every forest in a storm, scientists have finally filmed what trees have been hiding all along.

Workers digging at a construction site in China struck massive bones locked in 147-million-year-old rock.