For years, debates about Stonehenge have swung between gritty human effort and sweeping natural forces. Some picture sledges, ...

Deforestation has a drastic impact on an area's weather patterns. © M, Adobe Stock If weather directly shapes plant life, the reverse is just as true: vegetation ...

As a new launch window to Mars approaches in autumn 2026, an eye catching claim from Russia is making the rounds again. The country’s nuclear giant says it is developing a plasma engine capable of ...

For now, no one knows exactly what happened to the Russian satellite Resurs P1. On June 26, a cloud of debris was detected, indicating that the spacecraft had fragmented. The incident was announced ...

A team of researchers has successfully recovered part of the oldest known star catalog, attributed to the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, widely regarded as the father of astronomy. This catalog, written ...

Beneath its icy crust, Europa may conceal a salty ocean larger than all of Earth’s oceans combined. Shielded by miles of ice, warmed from within, and rich in active chemistry, this moon of Jupiter ...

The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada’s Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge.

The molecules: decane, undecane, and dodecane are hydrocarbons, long chains of carbon and hydrogen more commonly associated with petroleum on Earth. Their size alone sets them apart from previous ...

At the heart of this study is a well-known molecule: glycogen, a chain of glucose (sugar) used by our body as an energy reserve. Researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at ...

The analysis of seismic wave speeds allowed scientists to calculate the densities of these two layers. These results, when compared with mineralogical observations of metallic meteorites found on ...

When infants get congested, the urge to clear their nose quickly can backfire. A pediatrician explains what works, what to avoid, and why the tool in your hospital bag may not be the best option. A ...

Scientists mapping how seismic energy travels through Earth's mantle discovered two structures beneath Africa and the Pacific that rise up to 1,000 kilometers from the core-mantle boundary, roughly ...