Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, like our own solar system. A few dozen orbit binary stars, dancing delicately ...

Image via Unsplash.  Ships transport around 80% of the world’s cargo. From your food, to your car to your phone, ...

At a lab in Tokyo, a machine that looks nothing like a chicken might just be the future of poultry. Cultured meat is already a proven technology, but the biggest problem isn’t growing cells — it’s ...

The urn belonged to a Roman man named Senicio, whose name was inscribed on the vessel. Along with his cremated bones, ...

Even more remarkably, the rhino’s horn acts like a tailfin—a natural stabilizer that reduces spinning midair. “The great ...

Ultimately, the widespread occurrence of SSSB in mammals, especially primates, strongly suggests that such behaviors are ...

In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

But new research suggests it doesn’t have to be that way.

Geologic mapping, the report emphasizes, is a scientific process. Every map is the result of hypothesis testing, data ...

A new study led by Melissa Stadt and Anita T. Layton at the University of Waterloo reveals that potassium doesn’t just ...

A new modeling study estimates that radiation from CT scans performed in the United States in 2023 could eventually cause ...