The technology, enabled by thorium atoms, could keep time more accurately than atomic clocks and enable new discoveries about gravity, gravitational waves and dark matter
Female worker bees, which forage for the whole colony, struggle more to detect scents in the heat than males do, per the recent research
A roughly 33-foot-long asteroid called 2024 PT5 will chart a horseshoe-like path around our planet
Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the artist was a careful observer of the world around him
The Horned Serpent Panel from southern Africa predates the first Western scientific description of the dicynodont, a large mammal ancestor with tusks, by at least a decade
Scientists have created "a form of information immortality" meant to instruct future species on how to recreate humans. But who, or what, will find it?
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end
The “beloved” rodent named Cinnamon was spotted this week with help from drones. She has been wandering and eating grass after escaping her zoo enclosure last Friday
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, according to a new study
To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters to help them find mates
A new study identified the tiny pollutants in the olfactory bulbs of eight cadavers, suggesting microplastics can travel through the nose to the brain
The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine million years ago
Scientists identified traces of the drug in the brain tissue of two individuals buried in the crypt of a hospital in Milan
Kleptoparasitism, in which a bird harasses another to steal its food, might introduce avian flu to the continent, currently the only one without the severe H5N1 strain
The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines
A new paper analyzes three decades of fatalities around the world and predicts how "superbugs" will affect human health in the future
The noisy-but-shy bird, known as the hoiho, has earned the most votes for a second time amid threats to its survival
Two Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority railcars were added to an artificial reef off the coast of Georgia to create more wildlife habitat
A melting glacier caused a mountain in Greenland to collapse into a narrow fjord, setting off an oscillating wave that rattled seismic detectors around the world
New DNA analysis adds to growing research indicating the famous Pacific island did not collapse from overuse of resources before the arrival of Europeans
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