For a few months this summer, a large strip of Atlantic Ocean along the equator cooled at record speed. Though the cold patch is now...
Researchers have taken a crucial step toward making a handheld "quantum compass" that could one day help people navigate without the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems could slowly trend toward filling the internet with incomprehensible nonsense, new research has...
Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." (That's sometimes been interpreted...
The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where there wasn’t...
Wildfire blowups, fire whirls, towering thunderstorms: When fires get large and hot enough, they can actually create their own weather. In...
Wildfire blowups, fire whirls, towering thunderstorms: When fires get large and hot enough, they can actually create their own weather. In...
Storm-chasing for Science can be exciting and stressful – we know, because we do it. It has also been essential for developing today’s...
Storm-chasing for science can be exciting and stressful – we know, because we do it. It has also been essential for developing today’s...
A NASA satellite has spotted unexpected X- and C-shaped structures in Earth’s ionosphere, the layer of electrified gas in the...
BEIJING: Amid the sprawling desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Chinese scientists are harnessing advanced...
Are we alone in the universe? If you consider how vast space is, such a possibility seems extremely unlikely. In the Milky Way alone,...
BEIJING: A Chinese research team has realized the fractional quantum anomalous Hall state of photons for the first time by using an...
Scientists have finally discovered what's causing a Switzerland-size hole to repeatedly open up in Antarctica's sea ice.Researchers...
A fast-spinning asteroid that orbits in time with Earth may be a wayward chunk of the moon. Now, scientists think they know exactly...
On Aug. 16, 1897, the Research Vessel Belgica set sail from Antwerp, Belgium. The ship's destination — via Rio de Janeiro,...
Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering...
Popular artificial intelligence (AI) powered image generators can run up to 30 times faster thanks to a technique that condenses an...
