In 2014, Felicity Newell joined the Florida Museum of Natural History as a doctoral student, then promptly left the country ...

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of different solar system architectures. Critical to understanding how these ...

Analysis of Australia's highest-volume pesticide use has revealed that the majority of products widely used in Australian ...

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a ...

A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron ...

From 3D movie screens to augmented-reality devices, many modern technologies rely on our ability to manipulate light. Doing ...

The Hawaiian bobtail squid, a small, multi-colored native of coastal waters in Hawai'i, uses bioluminescence to camouflage ...

In a major advance applying insights from quantum physics to the inner workings of biology, a team of WashU researchers has ...

Police violence is judged differently depending on who is affected. When people with an immigrant background are targeted, ...

The structure of the plant communities that grow on the thawing permafrost in the Arctic is changing, with grasses displacing ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the ...

For decades, the massive stone circles of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights were considered a singular, mysterious ...