Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits and sense their behavior, making it...
Every year, billions of songbirds migrate thousands of miles between Europe and Africa—and then repeat that same journey again, year after year, to nest in exactly...
Researchers around the world are searching for new synthetic materials with special properties like superconductivity—that is, the conduction of electric current...
Drilling a 270,000-year old core from a Tasmanian lake has provided the first Australian record of a major global event where the Earth's magnetic field 'switched'—and...
An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a capuchin monkey for the first time, uncovering new genetic clues about the evolution of their...
In your quest for true love and that elusive happily ever after, are you waiting for the "right" person to come along, or do you find...
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels...
Scientists have accepted natural selection as a driver of evolution for more than 160 years, thanks to Charles Darwin.
Since ancient times, St. John's Wort has been used as a medicinal herb covering a wide range of applications such as the treatment of burns, skin...
A pair of environmental scientists are warning that the worldwide population could be facing another health crisis—ailments that impact people due to ingestion...