science

As North Korea's president pledges to "denuclearize" the Korean peninsula, an international team of scientists is publishing the most detailed view yet of the...

Today's baleen whales (Mysticetes) support their massive bodies by filtering huge volumes of small prey from seawater using comb-like baleen in their mouths much...

Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new discovery reported in the...

Neuroscientists at Indiana University have reported the first evidence that non-human animals can mentally replay past events from memory. The discovery could help advance...

Since first being awarded in 1901, most Nobel Prizes for science have gone to the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany and France. An empirical...

Liquid crystals—much like the ones forming these words on computer monitors—could be tuned to fight bacteria or scuttle compromised electronics by reacting to subtle...

A technique to manipulate electrons with light could bring quantum computing up to room temperature. A team of researchers in Germany and at the University...

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Kiel...

Makers of cars, planes, buses - anything that needs strong, lightweight and heat resistant parts - are poised to benefit from a new manufacturing...

When the solar wind - which is really a driving rain of charged particles from the sun - strikes Earth's protective magnetic field, the...

Researchers in Sweden have produced a bio-based material that is reported to surpass the strength of all known bio-based materials whether fabricated or natural,...