Just in time for Valentine's Day, space offers a heart-shaped greeting. The star Mira A, about 300 light-years from Earth, ...

Valentine's Day is traditionally a time of heart-shaped balloons, overpriced roses and fully booked restaurants. Couples kiss ...

At the Winter Olympics, athletes race down immaculate white slopes. The snow looks perfect. But it is largely manufactured.

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the ...

What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...

The performance and stability of smartphones and artificial intelligence (AI) services depend on how uniformly and precisely ...

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K.

Modern armor systems do not do a good enough job of protecting humans from blast-induced neurotrauma (brain and eye damage). To improve them, we may have to look to nature. In particular, a tiny ...

Scientists have long known that Earth's core is mostly made of iron, but the density is not high enough for it to be pure ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves ...