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A top-to-bottom "BioBlitz" survey uncovered likely new species, including a...
Credit: Kevin McLeanConducting nature surveys can be grueling, often frustrating work. In forest landscapes, the efforts may necessitate scaling towering trees and, on the ground, turning over 100 or...
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Temperatures last year were at least the third warmest on record and the...
Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe Earth broke a three-year streak of record heat in 2017, but the year’s average temperature remained the highest recorded without a boost from...
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Sky watchers discovered 11 new streams of stars that are the remnants of...
Credit: Dark Energy SurveyA project designed to help uncover the nature of dark energy and dark matter in our universe has found that alien stars from other galaxies have been infiltrating the Milky...
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The agency’s Kilopower project meets several important criteria: It’s...
Credit: NASA Glenn Research CenterNASA is testing a compact nuclear power system that could enable future human missions to the moon, Mars, or even deep space. The space agency is working with the US...
View ArticleNASA scientists estimate the space rock was traveling 28,000 miles per hour...
Don’t panic: Despite producing a vivid fireball and a shock wave that showed up on seismographs, the refrigerator-sized chunk of space rock that plunged into Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday night over...
View ArticleThe physiological mechanisms that work quite well on Earth to cool a person...
A rethink of future spacesuit design may be necessary in order to make sure astronauts don't overheat while they're undertaking tough physical tasks. New research, published in the journal Nature,...
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Middle-aged women who exercised their facial muscles on a regular basis...
Credit: Northwestern UniversityIt isn't often we get to enjoy the term Happy Cheeks Sculpting in our science news stories, so let's all take a moment to savor the phrase.... Now, then: A new study out...
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The Iranian oil tanker Sanchi collided over a week ago with a freighter, and...
Credit: 10th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters/Handout via ReutersThe spill from a sunken Iranian tanker off China's east coast has more than tripled in size, just over a week after the ship sank in a...
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New research on mice suggests stress triggers a type of white blood cell...
Credit: Jutta Kuss via Getty ImagesStress. It’s a feeling that you’re likely familiar with. But how stress affects the body, from a “fight-or-flight” response during uncomfortable or threatening...
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The rapid spread of flowering plants across the planet was, according to...
Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty ImagesFor at least two centuries, scientists have been completely stumped as to why flowering plants became dominant so rapidly in ecosystems across the...
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Researchers have developed an opioid compound that targets specific pain...
Credit: Liz O. Baylen/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesIn the fight against America’s opioid epidemic, many efforts are focused on treating addiction. But some scientists have another goal in mind:...
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During tests in the Canadian Arctic, a portable DNA sequencer searched for...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of ArizonaA tiny life-seeking instrument could be packed on a future mission to Mars or the icy moons of Enceladus or Europa. Its aim: to find microbes through a...
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CancerSEEK, which was 70 percent accurate in a human trial, could be major...
Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesAnne Marie Lennon, a gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, is accustomed to delivering bad news. “I have to tell...
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Found in Egypt in 1996, the stone contains pre-solar grains that could...
Credit: Dr. Mario di Martino, INAF Astrophysics Observatory of Torino A small meteorite that landed on Earth approximately 28.5 million years ago may be giving scientists an unprecedented glimpse into...
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Engineers at Brigham Young University have produced 3D images entirely out of...
Credit: Dan Smalley Lab, Brigham Young UniversityFor more than 40 years now, researchers and optical technicians have been trying to create a so-called “Princess Leia hologram” — a free-standing,...
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The technique, which produced macaques Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, could open...
Credit: Qiang Sun and Mu-ming Poo/Chinese Academy of SciencesGeneticists in China announced that they've successfully cloned the first primates using somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same method...
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The Xinjiang Qitai 110-meter Radio Telescope — QTT, for short — could help...
Credit: Xinhua/Liu Xu via Getty ImagesChina has announced plans to build the largest steerable radio telescope in the world, the Xinjiang Qitai 110-meter Radio Telescope (QTT), which could provide a...
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Running as fast as possible is not necessarily the optimal way to escape,...
Credit: Shannon Benson/VW Pics/UIG via Getty ImagesWhen a running predator goes after terrestrial prey, the potential victim's best hope for survival is surprisingly not to run as fast as possible,...
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The expedition aims to build evidence in support of establishing a protected...
Credit: Christian Åslund/GreenpeaceDeep beneath the frigid oceans off Antarctica lies a haven for marine life adapted to one of the most hostile places on Earth. Researchers from Greenpeace recently...
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The combination of a supermoon, a blue moon, and a full lunar eclipse on...
Credit: japatino via Getty ImagesWhile skywatchers in North America, Asia, and Europe watch a bigger-than-usual lunar eclipse on January 31, NASA engineers will shut down the instruments aboard the...
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