science

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea...

Within a shrouded New Zealand forest, a tree stump keeps itself alive by holding onto the roots of its neighboring trees, exchanging water and...

The large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to come up with ways to use existing...

On 31 March 2017, Jupiter's moon Europa passed in front of a background star—a rare event that was captured for the first time by...

Advanced simulations have solved a problem in turbulent fluid flow that could lead to more efficient turbines and engines. When a fluid, such as water...

Solar panel installations are on the rise in the U.S., with more than 2 million new installations in early 2019, the most ever recorded...

An international team of astronomers has witnessed a rare dynamic event foreshadowing the death of a red giant star for the first time –...

Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine itself. A Band-Aid is placed on a skinned knee....

Though it remains unknown how life began, there is a community of scientists who suspect it occurred in or around deep sea hydrothermal environments....

Controlling how electrons zip through a material is of central importance to build novel electronic devices. How the electronic motion is affected by magnetic...

One of the last remaining megaherbivores, forest elephants shape their environment by serving as seed dispersers and forest bulldozers as they eat over a...