Science

A team of researchers from Austria, Italy and Sweden has successfully demonstrated teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group explains how they accomplished this feat and ho...

Pedestrians are constantly avoiding collisions with oncoming people. Meters in advance they unconsciously change their walkway to pass each other. Physicists at Eindhoven University of Technology in collaboration with American and Italian researchers anal...

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are promising detector technologies that may be used to achieve active 3D imaging systems with fast acquisition, high timing accuracy and high detection sensitivity. Such systems have broad applications in the domain...

According to a recent study published in the journal Science Advances, air pollution not only affects air quality, but it also changes the pathways along which new particles are formed in the atmosphere....

To stop climate change, saving energy matters less than switching to renewable energy. Indeed, says Anthony Patt, it isn't clear whether saving energy makes much of a difference at all....

The historic flight launched 50 years ago this week....

"Come touch the Greenland ice sheet and be touched by it."...

When dinosaurs ruled the land, pterosaurs occupied the skies. Now we know they had feathers, suggesting plumage has a much deeper history than we had thought...

This announcement by Aleph Farms is an important milestone in the world of cellular meat production....

The vast majority of future moms discover they're pregnant at around the fifth week. The most common sign of things to come is missing one's period. By the fifth week, hCG hormone levels are high enough to be detected by a home pregnancy test kit....

2018 was a year all about impact — on the planet, on solving crimes, on mosquito populations, on reversing paralysis, and more....

Climate attribution studies and new data on global warming targets put climate change in the spotlight this year....

A researcher in China announced he created two babies using CRISPR. Many scientists questioned the study's ethics and medical necessity....

DNA searches of a public genealogy database are closing cases and opening privacy concerns....

Particles associated with a blazar kick-start the field of neutrino astronomy....

Scientists disagree on what a possible crater found under Greenland's ice means for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis....

An early lab test of exterminating a much-hated mosquito raises hopes, but is it really such a great idea?...

Studies claiming that alcohol in even small amounts is dangerous weren't designed to address risks of moderate drinking....

Planetary scientists are still trying to explain how a lake could have formed beneath a kilometer and a half of Martian ice....

A handful of people paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have learned to walk again....

The average outpatient visit in the United States costs nearly $500, according to a new scientific study. In addition, the average inpatient stay had a price tag in 2016 of more than $22,000. Both of these dollar amounts underscore a common understanding ...

Warmer winters may not provide sufficient chilling for blackcurrants in the UK, delaying the start of the growing season and resulting in reduced yields and lower fruit quality, researchers have found. Speaking at the British Ecological Society's annu...

A first-of-its-kind retrospective study finds that environmental cleanup projects are economically viable. The economic evaluation analysis estimates that Boston Harbor -- once dubbed America's filthiest harbor -- is now worth between $30 and $100 bil...

Thermal-sensing cameras mounted on drones may offer a safer and more cost-effective way to locate nests of the elusive European nightjar in forestry work and construction areas, according to new research presented at the British Ecological Society's a...

Researchers find an effective way to treat an underdiagnosed condition that can cause heart attack and heart-attack-like symptoms....

Researchers learn how a key transcription factor helps regulate the immune system and could be critical to understanding autoimmune disease and cancer immunosuppression....

Hope for better understanding of the inner works of cancer and other serious diseases....

Human ingenuity began on treks across Asia and in fluctuating African habitats....

On Dec. 21, 1968, James Lovell and two fellow pilots piled into a tiny capsule and set off into the unknown, becoming the first humans to fly around the moon....

The NASA Advisory Council has recommended that NASA review its existing planetary protection guidelines to balance the needs of science and exploration, an effort that could set the stage for a similar revision at the international level....

Graphene monolayers can be epitaxially grown on many single-crystal metal surfaces under ultra-high vacuum. On one side, these monolayers protect highly reactive metallic surfaces from contaminants, but on the other side, the piling of the layers as graph...

Gas and dust disks around young stars reveal features that suggest planets are off to an early start....

NASA's new Mars lander isn't quite ready to probe the Red Planet's interior yet, but it's starting to get the lay of the land on the surface — and in the atmosphere....

Driven by natural or artificial sunlight, a novel "microtube pump" transports water droplets over long distances. As reported by Chinese researchers in the Journal Angewandte Chemie, the pump consists of a tube whose properties can be changed asym...

Forget about dark matter and dark energy, new research suggests that the existence of 'dark fluid' may solve some of the biggest mysteries in physics....

An ancient temple in Indonesia hid underground for thousands of years....

A man in India developed a "rosette cataract" in his left eye after being punched in the face, according to a recent case report....

Nearly 200 military shipwrecks — dating as far back as the Revolutionary War and including ships from the Civil War and both World War I and World War II — were sunk to the bottom of a river....

New observations of a stellar explosion have revealed a surprise that could point to the trigger behind these violent, yet mysterious, eruptions...

An unlooted tomb discovered in an Egyptian necropolis contains the remains of more than 50 people....

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient mass grave at the ancient quarry site of Gebel el-Silsila....

Conflicting fuel standard reports from the Trump and Obama administrations disagree by billions of dollars. nata-lunata/shutterstock.com Fuel economy standards are an important way for the U.S. to combat climate change. However, a 2018 study conducted by ...

Our photo of the day comes from Big Basin Sate Park, California....

As the Commerce Department works on plans to take over civilian space traffic management responsibilities, the U.S. Air Force is making more data available on the positions of military satellites. SpaceNews.com...

Researchers from the University of Chicago have developed a high-throughput RNA sequencing strategy to study the activity of the gut microbiome....

The world has one official kilogram against which all other country's kilograms are measured and scales calibrated....

New research challenges existing assumptions about how tornadoes form....

After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more accurate, secure and versatile....

More than 85 well-preserved dinosaur footprints—made by at least seven different species—have been uncovered in East Sussex, representing the most diverse and detailed collection of these trace fossils from the Cretaceous Period found in the U...

New Haven, Conn. -- In-school nutrition policies and programs that promote healthier eating habits among middle school students limit increases in body mass index (BMI), a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds....