The water surface is a fantastic place for chemical reactions

Using an advanced technique, scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have demonstrated that a…

Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?

A new study blames a comet fragment for the death of the dinosaurs 66 million years…

Where did brains come from?

Charles Darwin wrote a book called “The Power of Movement in Plants” with his son Francis…

Citizen scientists discover companion star of APMPM J2036-4936

A low-mass companion to a distant star known as APMPM J2036-4936 has been recently detected as…

Random twists of place: How quiet is quantum space-time at the Planck scale?

Fermilab scientists have been conducting experiments to look for quantum fluctuations of space and time at…

First humans in Tasmania must have seen spectacular auroras

Drilling a 270,000-year old core from a Tasmanian lake has provided the first Australian record of…

Young people more worried about Brexit than COVID-19

Two fifths (42%) of adults aged 18-29 report being stressed about Brexit, more than the proportion…

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter gets an upgrade to capture new perspectives of the moon

Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age,…

An inner sensor of body movement revealed in zebrafish

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have revealed a central proprioceptive organ built directly into the central nervous…

Earth just had its 7th-warmest January on record

True to trend, Mother Earth kicked off 2021 with a balmy January that ranked 7th-warmest in…