We stride through our Universe with the confidence of a giant, giving little thought to the fact that reality bubbles with uncertainty.
Venus might not have been the sweltering, inhospitable planet of acidic clouds and desert rock that it is today if it hadn't been for the interference...
Scientists are beginning to explore whether poop transplants could help rebalance the guts of babies born via Caesarean section.
The most accurate clocks in existence aren't based on a quartz movement or a balance wheel, but the ticking of electrons in an atomic shell. The...
The earliest fossil of a feather ever found has been stuck to the ground for roughly 150 million years. Ever since it was discovered, over a...
Decades of teasing apart Neanderthal DNA has produced an archive of ancient genes that spell out a history of love affairs between estranged branches of humanit...
Rampant air pollution in northern Siberia is blocking sunlight and slowing the growth of boreal forests, new research suggests
Global warming is making the oceans more stable, increasing surface temperatures and reducing the carbon they can absorb, according to research published Monday...
The stuff that makes up our Universe is tricky to measure, to put it mildly. We know that most of the Universe's matter-energy density consists of...
An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu...