Even the driest desert air carries a little moisture. Not much, of course, but enough that scientists have spent years trying ...

The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers working deep in Uganda's Kibale National Park watched something unsettling unfold. The Ngogo ...

Extremely precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Coma cluster of galaxies provide new evidence for the Universe’s faster-than-expected rate of expansion. (Photo courtesy ...

Aqua-Fi would use radio waves to send data from a diver’s smart phone to a "gateway" device attached to their gear, which would send the data via a light beam to a computer at the surface that is ...

Exercise has well-established health benefits, yet its molecular underpinnings remain incompletely understood. A new study, led by researchers from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of ...

Honeybees are crucial in pollinating over 80 crops and contribute about $29 billion annually to U.S. agriculture. However, bee populations are declining rapidly due to habitat loss, pesticides, ...

For the first time in history, carbon dioxide concentrations have surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm) during their seasonal peak, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Image shows a type of plankton called Foraminifer – microscopic organisms, the size of a grain of sand – which float with fellow microorganisms close to the surface of the ocean. Credit: Bernat ...

Lucid dreams occur when a person is aware they are dreaming while still in the dream state. This phenomenon happens during REM sleep and has numerous potential applications, from solving physiological ...

Images of dwarf planets: NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF201: Sihao Cheng et al. A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly ...

Imagine a type of matter where particles are arranged in a neat crystal pattern but can flow without friction. This peculiar state is called a supersolid, requiring particles to share a common phase ...