science

The United States could reliably meet about 80 percent of its electricity demand with solar and wind power generation, according to scientists at the...

Psychedelic mushrooms likely developed their "magical" properties to trip up fungi-munching insects, suggests new research. The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open...

Can we stay young forever, or even recapture lost youth? Research from the laboratory of Professor Julian Chen in the School of Molecular Sciences at...

Fields, streets and cities, but also forests planted in rank and file, and dead straight rivers: humans shape nature to better suit their purposes,...

What is inside an atom between the nucleus and the electron? Usually there is nothing, but why could there not be other particles too?...

Led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, a diverse team of neuroscientists and surgeons successfully grafted human neural progenitor...

The same techniques used to train self-driving cars and chess-playing computers are now helping physicists explore the complexities of the quantum world. For the first...

For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world's driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils...

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups...

An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world's most...

A team of astronomers led by Carnegie's Meredith MacGregor and Alycia Weinberger detected a massive stellar flare -- an energetic explosion of radiation --...