Astronomers first presented the results of a study of Jupiter by the most modern millimeter-wave observatory.

Within the Smithsonian's collections exists a telltale trace of the weapon that would change the world forever

Although it outnumbers regular matter by a ratio of five to one, dark matter is frustratingly elusive. Many experiments have been and are being run to try to hunt down different types of candidate particles, but so far no direct trace has been found of any of them. Now, researchers from Max Planck have proposed a new hypothetical particle that might be behind dark matter – the superheavy gravitino – and outlined just how we might find them.

Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there.

A team of scientists hauled 500 kilograms of fresh snow back from Antarctica, melted it, and sifted through the particles that remained. Their analysis yielded a surprise: The snow held significant amounts of a form of iron that isn't naturally produced on Earth.

In what is likely the first study to look at how dietary preferences evolved across the animal kingdom, UA researchers looked at more than a million species, going back 800 million years. The team reports several unexpected discoveries, including that the first animal likely was a carnivore and that humans, along with other omnivores, belong to a rare breed.

The region produces most of the world’s banana exports — and the fungus affects the most popular commercial variety.

For a long time the fate of NASAs Europa Clipper mission has been uncertain. But yesterday NASA announced that the mission can now enter its next phase, where the design will be finalized and the spacecraft built and tested. “We are all excited about the decision that moves the Europa Clipper mission one key step closer to unlocking the mysteries of this ocean world,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Scientists find ways to sex chicks before they hatch

When José Capriles arrived in 2008 at the Cueva del Chileno rock shelter, nestled on the western slopes of Bolivia’s Andes, he didn’t know what he would find within.

The story of CTVT—a contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog—gets weirder all the time.

Did they survive their crash landing? If so, what happens to them now?

Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.Google Earth time lapses, from 1984 to 2018.You can watch deforestation in the Amazon, glaciers disappearing, rapid city expansion.

New species said to have been four times heavier than emperor penguin

ATLAS collaboration uses neural network to make discovery-level measurement of photon–photon interactions

Scientists believe they may have discovered the world’s oldest living vertebrate.

Scientists have developed a large-scale economical method to extract hydrogen (H2) from oil sands (natural bitumen) and oil fields. This can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, which are already marketed in some countries, as well as to generate electricity; hydrogen is regarded as an efficient transport fuel, similar to petrol and diesel, but with no pollution problems.

Discovery raises new questions about the amount of plastic waste permeating the air, water, and soil virtually everywhere on Earth

For the first time, Chinese scientists have demonstrated the experiment of transferring quantum information in a 3D state. Limited in a two-level state for a long time, the study paves the way to teleporting the complete quantum state of a particle, according to an article in American Physical Society a top peer-review journal.

Last week we highlighted the ongoing dispute between academic publishing giant Elsevier and the University of California (UC) system. Earlier this year, UC cancelled its contract with Elsevier, after the publishing giant -- which gets nearly all of...