Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made it. Why the ancestors of modern birds lived while so many of their relatives died has been a mystery th…

The paradise jumping spider had never been recorded in Indiana until volunteers at Kankakee Sands took a closer look.

I follow a decently minimalist mindset when it comes to landscape photography, yet this is something I never leave home without. In some situations, this photography accessory single-handedly makes an image possible. Polarizers, ironically, are not a very pol…

Back-to-back solar flares, including one on the Fourth of July, will create solar weather storms resulting in brighter auroras and potential power grid fluctuations.

Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late June 2023, N...

Simulation of air and odor flow through the virtual cat nose showed that it appears to function similarly to a parallel coiled gas chromatograph.

NASA's VIPER—short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover—recently completed another successful round of rigorous tests of the agency's first robotic moon rover's ability to drive off the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander and onto the lunar surface…

UCSF oncology scientist Paddy O'Leary won the 112th running of the Dipsea Race, the country's oldest trail race, on June 11. We caught up with him to learn more about his running, work and what drives him.

Researchers found a correlation between physical activity in adults over sixty and quality of life.

Webb captures cosmic clash of the titans in incredible detail, revealing insights about galactic mergers, star formation, and supermassive black holes.

Every bird you've ever seen—every robin, every pigeon, every penguin at the zoo—is a living dinosaur. Birds are the only group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago. But not all the birds alive at the time made i…

July 4th was the Earth's hottest day on record, scientists said Wednesday. Experts believe more heat records will fall this summer.

The company, founded by Elon Musk, hopes its brain implant could restore body control to people who are paralyzed.

Using computer simulations, an international team of cosmologists have discovered that observations of gravitational waves from merging black holes may unveil the true nature of dark matter. Their finding will be presented today at the 2023 National Astronomy…

Located just south of Sri Lanka, it is at this location the Earth’s gravitational pull is weakest

Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and rocky material that orbited our young sun, larger and larger bodies coalesced to eventually give rise to the planets, moons, and asteroids we see today.

Scientists in China and Australia successfully develop the world’s first safe and efficient non-toxic aqueous aluminum radical battery.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe comes within 5.3 million miles of the Sun's surface while traveling at 364,610 miles per hour.

New research could signal a step change in the quest to design the new materials that are needed to meet the challenge of net zero and a sustainable future. Researchers have shown that a mathematical algorithm can guarantee to predict the structure of any mat…

The echoes of light from jets launched from black holes offers a new way to pin down the distance to these exotic objects and to study a largely unobserved population in the center of the Galaxy. It could also even help determine the rate of expansion of the …

Scientists from a number of leading research institutions including the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope to observe 68 of SpaceX's satellites. The authors conclude that they detected "un…

Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of 'clocks' in the early universe.

The PIGS survey sought out—and found—a group of metal-poor stars staying close to the galaxy’s core.