An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

A new study reveals that implementing enhanced weathering (EW), the practice of adding crushed basalt to soils, with U.S.

In an age where social media promises to connect us, a Baylor University study reveals a sobering paradox—the more time we ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Biodiversity is under threat worldwide. While the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

The early lineages of hexapods (broadly defined insects) have long been debated. Researchers at University of Tsukuba and ...