There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

Experts have found a little fire ant at Waihe‘e Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge in Maui, raising concerns about a potential ...

When pistachio hulls split before the nuts are harvested, insects and fungi can get inside, damaging the nut, costing farmers ...

The Chang'e-6 lunar probe found tiny tubes formed by a single layer of atoms – something that has previously been seen only in a lab ...

The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission’s moon samples uncover naturally formed nanotubes once thought possible only in labs.

Ganga is the spiritual lifeline of India. It is not just a river, but a cultural magnet. Ganga has seen the evolution of the greatest civilizations, c.

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...