Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics Announced

Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics Announced …

Subsea science observatory vanishes from German bay

A German research organization is searching, so far in vain, for an underwater environmental monitoring station…

PIA23418: Morava Valles

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

A new duck-billed dinosaur

The dinosaur, whose nearly complete skeleton was unearthed from 72 million year old marine deposits in…

Silicon as a semiconductor: Silicon carbide would be much more efficient

In power electronics, semiconductors are based on the element silicon — but the energy efficiency of…

Report cards on women in STEM fields finds much room for improvement

Data from a four-year study of institutional ‘report cards’ suggest that although a growing number of…

Researchers uncover role of earthquake motions in triggering a 'surprise' tsunami

In newly published research, an international team of geologists, geophysicists, and mathematicians show how coupled computer…

Climate change could bring short-term gain, long-term pain for loggerhead turtles

An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is…

SPEECHLESS, SCREAM and stomata development in plant leaves

Plants constantly make trade-offs in their decisions: more light means more opportunity for photosynthesis, but then…

The state of China's climate in 2018: More extreme events, but less loss

In order to provide information on climate features, meteorological disasters and climate impacts to the public…