An international team of researchers has uncovered "unprecedented" snake venom resistance in an unexpected species—the legless amphibians known as caecilians. The research has been published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Students at a summer science camp in the Lake Charles are set to dial up the International Space Station in what is being described as the first call from Louisiana to space.

There are two kinds of Blue Moons, according to NASA, and neither has anything to do with the actual color of the Moon.

Right now, there are three active meteor showers, and their peak viewing times are approaching in the next few weeks.

Freshwater turtles are among the most threatened groups of vertebrates globally and in the modern world of highly urbanized wetlands, they fight a constant battle for survival once they leave the safety of their aquatic home to nest on land.

Chemical reactions driven by iron-laden particles from meteorites or volcanic outbursts might have led to the formation of molecules needed for the origin of life on Earth about 4.4 billion years ago, according to a study recently published in Scientific Repo…

The OSIRIS-REx mission, NASA's first asteroid sample recovery, will return a sample from asteroid Bennu on September 24.

The irregular galaxy Arp 263 can be seen in the background of the Hubble Space Telescope’s image but is overtaken by a stellar photobomber, the bright star BD+17 2217.

A new UB-led study helps solve a longstanding physics mystery about the insulator-to-metal transition.

A recent study published in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters has dated what would be the oldest glacier in the world.

Anna Y. Q. Ho and others chosen will pursue science investigations that will contribute to Israel’s first space telescope mission, planned to launch into geostationary orbit around Earth in 2026.

In a recent publication in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces, the research team led by first author Dr. Philip Schädlich, a research associate at the Professorship of Experimental Physics, presents a method for the detailed structural analysis of synt…

Scientists previously "missed it because they hadn’t expected to find anything like it.”

Researchers at the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis/ Museo Aragonés de Paleontología, Spain, have released the description of a new upper Jurassic dinosaur based on fossil remains found in Spain.

Quincke rotation is defined as the spontaneous steady rotation of a dielectric particle immersed in a dielectric solvent under a steady and uniform electric field. Electro-hydrodynamically driven active particles based on Quincke rotation are a significant mo…

Massive eruptions 719 million years ago in what is now Canada may have sucked enough CO2 from the atmosphere to freeze Earth over 2 million years later.

SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket launch creates temporary hole in Earths Ionosphere

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a short-period high-mass X-ray binary known as CXOU J121538.2+361921. Results of the observational campaign, presented July 13 on the preprint se…

Paleontologists discovered the fossils of four extinct saber-toothed cats, including two new species, that roamed South Africa five million years ago.

Using the VERA network of radio telescopes, astronomers have gained new insights into the growth of young supermassive black holes in Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. The team detected significant Faraday rotation in polarized radio waves from these galaxies, …

Sure, an old pair of scissors has a certain rustic charm. But when it comes to scissors, charm won't cut it (literally). Here's how to rejuvenate them.

A study was conducted by investigators from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences to evaluate the effects of environmental factors and microbial communities on arsenic (As) mobilization.

A young galaxy cluster spotted by the Chandra X-ray Observatory may have gotten a head start on "relaxing" before is galactic siblings.

An estimated 1500 million liters of oil leak into the ocean each year. This causes widespread environmental pollution because oil encompasses hazardous compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which can be toxic or mutagenic to organisms.

Researchers from Brazil discovered that survival of the parasitic worm that cause the disease schistosomiasis, depends on expression of a specific type of RNA.