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New research suggests the atmosphere of Uranus is largely comprised of...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechThere's a lot of really smelly stuff wafting around Uranus. The clouds in Uranus' upper atmosphere are composed largely of hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that makes rotten eggs...
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The 11,000-year-old fossil prints found in New Mexico's White Sands National...
Credit: Matthew Bennett, Bournemouth UniversityFossilized tracks — footprints created thousands of years ago — provide some of the best evidence for past behaviors. Sometimes they show animal...
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Cyberdyne’s Hybrid voluntary and autonomous control Assistive Limb, or...
Credit: Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba/CYBERDYNE Inc.In the science fiction movies Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim Uprising the heroes don 30-story exoskeletons to battle huge alien sea monsters....
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An 11-year-long survey of 59 sites in five countries found higher lowland...
Credit: John Moore/Getty ImagesGorillas and chimpanzees may be twice as numerous in West Africa as previously thought, but the apes are still endangered, declining fast and in dire need of protection,...
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Conservationists believe the answer might lie in treating languages as if...
Credit: Sijori Images/Barcroft India via Getty ImagesThere are more than 7,000 languages on Earth, yet half of the world’s 7.6 billion people speak just 24 of them and 95 percent speak just 400 of...
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An improved process for recycling plastic, researchers say, might lead the...
Credit: Education Images/UIG via Getty ImagesA new process for making plastics might help break down one of the barriers to recycling, researchers at a Colorado university say. Plastics are formed by...
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Computer models show that Neanderthals appear to have had a smaller...
Credit: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty ImagesSince the brain is made of soft tissue, it starts to decompose just minutes after death due to autolysis, or self-digestion, which usually begins in the...
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Using a high-powered cannon, researchers demonstrated that asteroids can...
Credit: Getty ImagesHow did Earth get its water? For many years, planetary scientists thought that large comets were the likely source of water for Earth’s oceans, lakes, and rivers. But some...
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The International Association of Athletics Federations has capped...
Credit: Ryan Pierse/Getty ImagesSouth African athlete Caster Semenya for the past decade has dominated women's world championship track and field events, particularly 800m races. She even beats her...
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Astronomers report witnessing the formation of a galaxy cluster — the largest...
Credit: S. Dagnello; NSF/NRAO/AUIAstronomers set their sights on an area incredibly far away — more than 90 percent of the way across the observable universe — and found the beginnings of a massive...
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Multiple, stone tools and a butchered rhino push back the date of early human...
Credit: Xavier Rossi/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesSince the discovery in 2007 of Callao Man — represented by a Homo sapiens foot bone excavated at Callao Cave — humans were thought to have first lived...
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Helium is abundant throughout the universe, but detection of the element in...
Credit: HubbleESASince helium is the second most abundant element in the universe, exoplanet hunters had thought that the element should be easily found in the atmospheres of planets orbiting other...
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Newly discovered Icthyornis dispar fossils reveal what bird beaks looked like...
Credit: Michael Hanson and Bhart-Anjan S. BhullarA gull lookalike with teeth: scientists refined their description Wednesday of a fascinating fowl at the evolutionary junction between dinosaur and...
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The twin satellites will help researchers observe how climate change is...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA is gearing up for the upcoming launch of its Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, which will map changes in water and ice around the world...
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The much-hyped technology behind bitcoin could play a key role in finally...
Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty ImagesWe are poised on the edge of the age of genomics. It won’t be long, we’re promised, before medical treatments will be tailored to our unique genetic makeup,...
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A star is seen surviving an unusual supernova explosion of its binary companion.
Credit: S. Ryder (Australian Astronomical Observatory)/O. Fox (STScI)/NASA/ESAThe surviving companion of a star that went supernova 17 years ago from Earth's perspective shines in a new view from...
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The lander is scheduled for a May 5 liftoff and will scrutinize the Red...
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed MartinNASA's next Mars mission will finally get to the root of marsquakes on the Red Planet. More than forty years after the Viking landers failed to find evidence of...
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Moganite, which requires the presence of water, was discovered for the first...
Credit: Masahiro Kayama and M. Sasaoka (SASAMI-GEO-SCIENCE)A mineral that requires the presence of water to form has been discovered in a lunar meteorite, a new study reports. The find suggests that...
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The asteroid, called 2004 EW95, was likely flung into the Kuiper Belt during...
Credit: ESO/M. KornmesserAstronomers have spotted a carbon-rich asteroid in the icy region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt — the first such asteroid ever found exiled from the inner solar...
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The infectious disease, called chytrid fungus, passes from animals in the...
Credit: Kike Calvo/UIG via Getty ImagesScientists have traced a deadly fungus responsible for killing frogs, toads, and newts worldwide to the Korean peninsula, sparking new calls for a halt to the...
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