If an extraterrestrial intelligence were looking for signs of human communications, when and where should they look? In a new ...

To build a large-scale quantum computer that works, scientists and engineers need to overcome the spontaneous errors that ...

A rare whale died off the coast of Honduras after ingesting a plastic bag in what's been described as a "tragic event." ...

We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy ...

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a ...

An international research team led by Dr. Verónica Díez Díaz from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has used new digital 3D reconstructions to gain detailed insights into the mobility of the tail of ...

A typical morning hair-care routine can expose you to as much immediate nanoparticle pollution as standing in dense highway ...

In a bright, open laboratory nestled along Washington State's Sequim Bay, among rows of glassware filled with seawater and ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in ...

Practical fusion power that can provide cheap, clean energy could be a step closer thanks to artificial intelligence.

Climate modeling evidence suggests the finding is the result of "natural climate variations" offsetting the human-driven loss ...

Everyone who ever took a photo knows the problem: if you want a detailed image, you need a lot of light. In microscopy, ...