John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 "for the development of lithium-ion batteries."

Things haven’t quite gone to plan for India's Chandrayaan-2 mission, with the team losing the spacecraft’s Vikram lander following a touchdown attempt last month. But there is still plenty of science to come as the probe continues to circle the ...

President Donald Trump hurled another barb via Twitter at the 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg, a week after he mocked her emotional speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Trump quote-tweeted a supporter with the username @O ...

An organic effort by black millennials and Gen Z-ers to influence older family members against Mr. Biden may be important in the Democratic primary.

Adolescents place a lot of emphasis on popularity and they are keenly aware of the difference between being liked and being popular. If forced to choose, many opt for popularity. Popularity, however, has many faces. In prior research, two groups of p ...

A once overlooked gene, from a family of “jumping genes”, has been found to hold the potential to accelerate crop breeding through improved drought resistance in tomatoes.

Aphysicist claimed that Earth and the entire universe could already be inside a black hole. According to the physicist, this theory is related to the idea that the Big Bang was actually a black hole. As indicated in various scientific reports, black ...

“Conversion therapy is not just a lie, but it’s very harmful,” said McKrae Game, a South Carolinian who founded one of the nation's biggest ex-gay ministries.

Scientists say they have finally cracked the problem of repairing tooth enamel. Though enamel is the hardest tissue in the body, it cannot self-repair. Now scientists have discovered a method by which its complex structure can be reproduced and the e ...

Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed letter from her landlord in the mailbox. She felt a familiar panic as she began to read it. For nearly a year, Goodman and her six children—two of them adopted after being aban ...

After 557 days since they were launched into space, Starman and the Tesla Roadster have completed their first orbit around the Sun. Starman hitched a ride out of our atmosphere on the first Falcon Heavy launch in February 2018. Since then it has trav ...

A recent study found virtual reality experiences were better at easing pain than watching televised nature scenes. Immersive distraction seems key to the success, scientists say.

A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a packed weddi...

The idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland has captured the president’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, who said Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed interested in the notion.

Plant-based meat, not content with replacing Burger King burgers, is dreaming bigger. This week, the two biggest names in the sector made steps into new areas to try and get more consumers to ditch meat.

Life at high elevations is tough, as the lower air pressure makes it hard for the body to get enough oxygen into the bloodstream. The weather is often cold but can shift without warning. And if you want to stay very long, you have to find food in an ...

A conservative lawyer and writer who argues for selling off the nation’s public lands is now in charge of a nearly quarter-billion acres in federally held rangeland and other wilderness. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Monday signed an order ma ...

From the Virgin Islands comes a tale of two Jeffreys, and the difference great wealth can make when it comes to sex crimes—until it doesn't. Both Jeffreys were convicted of shameful crimes that required them to register as sex offenders in whate ...

Eve is working on an Eve V2 and the company is planning to launch it in 2020, with next-gen AMD and Intel processors.

Nestled among the red-rock cliffs of Zion national park and the Grand Canyon, California condor chicks No 1,000 and 1,001 blinked into this world. Their birth signalled success for a decades-long program to bring North America’s largest bird back fro ...