Everything depends on what people and their government do,” Somerville writes, not once, not twice, but (if I count correctly) seven times.

Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

Had the asteroid hit the moon, it would have carved out a crater in an impact with the energy of a nuclear bomb.

A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip ...

To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precision cutting tools to high-performance ...

Scientists mapped a hidden "sea of light" from hydrogen 9–11 billion years ago, revealing how the early universe was structured.

Central Asia's Altyn-Emel National Park is home to the Singing Dune, a 150-meter high natural wonder that produces deep humming and booming noises. This acoustic enigma, likened to a giant organ, is ...

Little Foot was originally discovered in 1980 in Sterkfontein Cave in South Africa. As the nickname suggests, the first traces were four small ankle bones. It wasn't until the 1990s that scientists ...

Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells more effectively. Their strategy targets a hidden “off switch” that tumors ...

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...

The English physicist was diagnosed with ALS at age 21 and managed to live 55 years longer than science predicted.

One of the famous ancient Greek Riace Bronzes was found to have had its teeth designed following the mathematical value of ...