In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [H ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn intense criticism—much of it deserved—for his stance on vaccines. But lost in the uproar is a ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

Solar power is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States, propelled by climate mitigation policies and carbon-free ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

Since theNational Science Foundation first started collecting postgraduation data nearly 70 years ago, the number of Ph.D.s ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have successfully simulated how light interacts with empty space – a phenomenon once ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can ‘catch’ yawns from an android imitating human facial expressions, according to new research ...

The humble toilet seems like the least likely setting for drama. Yet throughout history, it has claimed kings, toppled ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the ...

The radioactive decay of atomic nuclei has been one of the keystones of nuclear physics since the beginning of nuclear research. Now the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured ...