"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...

Tree trunks in the Amazon are getting 3.3% thicker every decade as the plants absorb extra carbon dioxide, suggesting they ...

A London-based startup has created the world's first full-stack quantum computer using a standard silicon CMOS chip ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo".

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

Archaeologists in Newfoundland have discovered seven tiny beads known as wampum that are made from seashells. They may be the ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

While exploring the region around an archaeological site in the Peruvian Andes, researchers discovered a never-before-seen ...

Researchers have described a whole new family of extinct crocodyliforms based on the fossilized remains of a single teenage ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.