The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit ...

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known ...

Every year, we throw 300 million tons of plastic waste, which ends up in rivers and oceans, and then enters into our bodies.

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

CERN and its partners in Europe and worldwide are currently working to identify the next collider that would succeed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after the latter reaches the end of operations in ...

Strong and weak rocks transform the landscape through erosion, and a new study reveals that soil resistance alters this erosion by up to 20x.

Scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information.

In the pantheon of golfing disasters, a lipped-out putt is up there with a shank, the yips and a topped drive off the first ...

They discover that the “breath” of the Uturuncu volcano comes from underground fluids, indicating a low risk of eruption.