Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don't tell the entire ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts.

A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in ...

Microbial life in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life's exploitation of oxygen, ...

About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

In a groundbreaking use of teleportation, critical units of a quantum processor have been successfully spread across multiple ...

From the Bronze age to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, the discovery and development of new materials has been a driving force in human history.

The punch of the mantis shrimp has been studied in detail. As it moves through the water at high speed, it produces what is known as a cavitation bubble. As water is pushed aside at high speed, its ...

So while the odds have doubled, astronomers aren't too worried. When 2024 YR 4 had a risk of less than 1%, NASA's Planetary ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024.

We've yet to see a falling piece of space debris strike an airplane, but if it happens, the consequences would almost ...