By Ben Aris in Berlin China’s lead over the United States in global scientific output has leapt, as new data shows that the ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

Wang leaves University of California San Diego after 20 years to become director of the laboratory’s Institute of Molecular ...

A massive, government-led operation like the Manhattan Project is not feasible, but a public-private partnership could work ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...

This is the first evidence for a white dwarf exploding not once, but twice. The discovery could shed new light on how some ...

Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

The study’s authors note that small neural networks — simplified versions of the neural networks typically used in commercial ...