Despite cats' innate desire to wander and hunt, they are often kept inside by their human servants due to concerns about ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study ...

The team, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, designed an experiment to test escape behavior in ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...

L urking in the cooling canals of a Florida nuclear power plant, an unlikely population of American alligators has taken up residence and continues to thrive. Fear not – the crocodiles aren’t glowing, ...

Suni Williams conducted a record-breaking spacewalk outside the ISS. An amateur astrophotographer photographed her from Earth.

You may not think something like a comic is suitable for a courtroom, but it may be a powerful way to communicate complex scientific ideas.

Quantum devices use qubits (quantum bits), which allow computations to extend from the classical 0 and 1 options of bits. Papic and his group have used a 5,564-qubit quantum annealer to simulate a one ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female from hundreds of kilometers away, while being acoustically invisible to ...