Our planet's convoluted history of evolving life has spawned countless weird and wonderful creatures, but none excite evolutionary biologists – or divide taxonomists – quite like crabs.

The Kuiper Belt, a vast disk brimming with icy bodies including Pluto and located just beyond Neptune's orbit in our solar system, exhibits an intriguing color palette ranging from stark white to deep reddish hues on its objects. This distinctive color range,…

CANADA: Scientists at the University of Toronto have made a groundbreaking theoretical breakthrough that may shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and the large-scale structure of the universe, known as the cosmic web. The study, published in the Journal…

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Back in 2015, an astronaut grew a zinnia flower in space at the veggie facility of the International Space Station. NASA recently shared a picture of it.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and Astrazeneca are working to advance discovery of ‘molecular glues’ that facilitate interaction between a protein previou...

There was a time in Earth's turbulent history when everything almost slowed to a standstill.

The threat of geomagnetic storms has increased as two new unstable sunspots have appeared on the Earth-facing side of the Sun. NOAA satellite imagery has captured the active regions.

A mammoth, bridge-sized asteroid could make its closest approach to Earth in the last 2 decades, today, June 15. NASA has revealed its details such as speed, size, and distance.

Using the phenomenon of gravitational lensing predicted by Einstein, scientists have observed a rare 'warped' supernova, providing invaluable insights into the expansion of the universe, stellar explosions, and hidden galaxies.

A research group led by Professor Hideki Fujiwara and Associate Professor Daisuke Sakamaki from the Graduate School of Science at Osaka Metropolitan University succeeded, for the first time, in sy ...

The evolution of Earth's climate contains many components.

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Although experimental verification is at the heart of the scientific method, there is quite a difficulty range when it comes to setting up such an experiment. Testing what underlies the formation o…

Coral reefs in some parts of the world actually benefit from warming El Niño events • Earth.com

Recent scientific findings have revealed that Neanderthal DNA makes up between 1 and 4% of the genome in contemporary humans descended from ancestors who left Africa. However, it was unclear to what extent these genes continue to shape human traits - until no…

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In a study published today in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers at the University of Toronto reveal a theoretical breakthrough that may explain both the nature of invisible dark matter and the large-scale structure of the univers…

The roughly 6-hour EVA is scheduled to begin Thursday (June 15) at 8:55 a.m. ET.

Two children developed insatiable hunger and severe obesity due to rare genetic mutations, their doctors reported.

In a discovery that could reduce or even eliminate the use of cobalt—which is often mined using child labor—in the batteries that power electric cars and other products, scientists at the University of California, Irvine have developed a long-lasting alternat…

The legendary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have found the earliest stars in the universe. Such stars are called Population III (or Pop III) stars with Pop I representing the newest stars, the category in which our Sun falls.In a new paper that is yet…

Sodium chloride, better known as table salt, isn't exactly the type of mineral that captures the imagination of scientists.

Here's how to see five planets align. The rare planetary parade of Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mercury will appear in a line beside the sun.