The 1.95-mile-wide (3.14 kilometers) ring of dishes will monitor solar activities.

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the historical evolution of the world's languages share a common c…

New nematode could reveal secrets of cryptobiosis process organisms use to stay dormant

Despite different building materials and evolutionary histories, they converged on a similar design.

Genome analysis shows new nematode species shares molecular toolkit for survival with C. elegans.

Digital simulation suggests small percentage of pathogens could cause significant ecological damage.

Dust from the Sahara desert helps remove methane from the atmosphere, a new study shows.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have shown that computer vision systems can more easily detect objects in motion—like a car driving down the street or a person walking in a crosswalk—than stationary objects.

A rocket that will supply cargo to the International Space Station will launch in early August off the coast of Virginia, which may be visible for Virginia residents.

The ringed planet is definitely gaseous, but is it really 'giant?'

Researchers in the lab of Brent Fultz have discovered why so-called Invar alloys keep a steady size and shape over a broad range of temperatures—unlike most materials.

Separation processes are essential in the purification and concentration of a target molecule during water purification, removal of pollutants, and heat pumping, accounting for 10–15% of global energy consumption. To make the separation processes more energy …

Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine have diagnosed a Sumatran Orangutan at the Indianapolis Zoo with a rare genetic disease called Alkaptonuria.

If you have ever seen a shooting star on a clear night, surely someone has invited you to make a wish. Nevertheless, this is a natural phenomenon without any magical connotation—beyond its great beauty, of course.

Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a highly efficient method to investigate systems with long-range interactions that were previously puzzling to experts. These systems can be gases or even solid materials such as magnets whose atoms interact no…

High up in the Himalayas, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Niigata University, Japan, have discovered droplets of water trapped in mineral deposits that were likely left behind from an ancient ocean which existed around 600 million yea…

A rare and dangerous fungal infection has been spreading across the United States in recent years — and a primary theory is that climate change is driving its rapid rise. The fungus called Candida auris was first discovered in hospitals in New York in 2016. L…

NASA and NOAA’s STAQS campaign is taking to the skies and ground this summer to support TEMPO satellite data. Scientists will compare the air quality data th...

The world's forests, grasslands, and other terrestrial ecosystems have played a substantial role in offsetting human carbon emissions—a capability that UC Berkeley researchers say would be threatened by continued global change.

Large, updatable phylogenetic trees are constructed using a divide-and-conquer strategy.

A vast telescope buried beneath Antarctica has captured high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic Centre, ushering in a new era for observing the Universe.

Carbon nanotubes, large cylindrical molecules composed of hybridized carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure, recently attracted significant attention among electronics engineers. Due to their geometric configuration and advantageous electronic propert…

A source tells Reuters that Tesla’s range estimate algorithm is overly optimistic when the cars are fully charged, before switching to more realistic projections once the battery is about half depleted.

Scientists have unraveled what may go down in history as the most bizarre meteorite ever discovered on Earth.

The test is part of NASA and ESA's future plans for controlling robots on the Moon's surface from the lunar Gateway station.