New insights into factors believed to have contributed to the collapse of the Mayan civilization have been unearthed in a Mexican cave.

New indoor solar panels that are six times more energy efficient than current options could make batteries for home electronics obsolete.

Scientists have uncovered compelling new evidence from the ocean floor supporting the controversial theory that a disintegrating comet triggered a dramatic global cooling event 12,800 years ago. The ...

Scientists say they have achieved the "impossible" by directly measuring zero-point motion in a molecule at its lowest energy state.

An emergency medical situation prompted a demanding mid-winter evacuation from the United States' McMurdo Station in Antarctica this week.

An in-depth investigation has revealed that organized, multi-million-dollar networks dedicated to scientific fraud are on the rise, researchers at Northwestern University report. These expanding ...

New research is exploring potential links between claims of past life memories, trauma, and spiritual beliefs.

Quasicrystals, an unusual atomic structural form that falls between crystal and glass, may be the most stable form of matter, despite the fact that this unusual arrangement of atoms was once ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of mysterious ancient humans on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi, including stone tools that indicate an unknown ancient human ancestor made the major deep-sea ...

Typically about half the mass of our Sun, white dwarfs form when stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse. What remains is generally a carbon-oxygen core surrounded by layers of helium and ...

A newly surfaced NASA directive reveals a fast-tracked effort by the United States to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon and Mars. This week, a groundbreaking new study reveals the discovery of new ...

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