Science

We may have discovered one of the key reasons for the extraordinary lifespans of bowhead whales, which can live for...

In a physics lab in Amsterdam, there’s a wheel that can spontaneously roll uphill by wiggling.This “odd wheel” looks simple:...

Alan Eugene Miller, who killed three men in workplace shootings in 1999, was scheduled to be the first person executed by...

In a study of more than 2300 people with chronic fatigue syndrome, 91 per cent had these genetic variants, in...

However, in recent decades, the sea has dominated the once-dynamic coastal margin, propelling farther inland as sea levels rise. Over...

The Montreal Protocol didn’t just preserve the ozone layer, it helped save Earth from a climate change time bomb. The...

Researchers have resorted to applying antibiotics on corals to save Caribbean reefs from deadly disease, but there are concerns this...

By the time Scotland’s Hunterston B nuclear power station closed in January of this year, its dual reactors had produced...

As an old saying goes, you can't fight city hall, meaning government. But the people of St. James Parish, La.,...

Metal pipes beneath the floor provide enough local disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field for an autonomous robot to work out...

Really, the only difference is that this is a downward-curving path with the center of this circular curve below the...

When dolphins swim through the ocean, it looks effortless. By whipping their tail up and down, the sleek marine mammals...

Measuring a quantum object makes it lose its odd quantum properties, and it only takes between 0.1 billionth of a...

The Crispr components can’t naturally get into cells on their own, so Intellia uses a delivery system called lipid nanoparticles—essentially...

As if dainty, iridescent fairies are racing around a cosmic track, Neptune’s rings sparkle in a stunning new view captured...

In mock-ups of the female reproductive tract, bull sperm cluster in groups of two to four, which seems to help...