One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to reveal the nature of dark matter. We know it exists (it constitutes ...

The ancient Maya believed that everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a ...

A new way of diagnosing lung cancer with a blood draw is 10 times faster and 14 times more sensitive than earlier methods, ...

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in ...

For the first time, scientists have taken near-daily measurements of the sun's global coronal magnetic field, a region of the ...

A significant advancement in nuclear-data analysis has been achieved, which is relevant for several key areas, ranging from ...

National University of Singapore (NUS) food scientists have developed a simple and scalable method for culturing pork fat ...

I like to eat quintessential fish fingers as a crusty bread sandwich, with lemon juice, mayonnaise and salad. And I'm not the ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive (and scary) objects in the universe—with masses around 1 billion ...

An article published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has provided new insights into how wood density in trees and shrubs ...

For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods—say five million ...

The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which includes Kenya's Maasai Mara and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, is one of the most ...