Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have splashed down off the Florida coast after a two-month mission on board SpaceX's new Crew Dragon.
The melting glaciers which carved many of the features still visible on the surface today would have provided a shelter from solar radiation - and a...
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory...
A team of researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory, Harvard University and St. Mary’s College of Maryland has demonstrated efficient gene knockout in the longfin inshore...
Researchers examined anglerfishes and said their immune system was strange among the tens of thousands of vertebrate species.
Researchers were able to 'dial' the lifespans of tiny roundworms up and down by altering the activity of proteins that tell them when to consume energy.
A half-century of controversy over two popular bird species may have finally come to an end. In one corner: the Bullock's Oriole, found in the western...
The parasite Ribeiroia ondatrae can cause amphibian limb malformations.Pieter Johnson/University of Colorado BoulderParasites have a public relations problem.Unlike the many charismatic mammals, fishes and birds that...
A set of polar ice caps has literally disappeared. We don’t need any more evidence that the Earth is warming to the point of mass instability,...
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results that show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons. US CMS — the United...