Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Diamonds are made out of carbon — highly organized carbon, that is. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.

Which political party provides more federal funding for science? Given climate-denial rhetoric, attacks on expertise, the size of government, and culture-war battles over research, many Americans may ...

Scientists racing to tackle plastic pollution have created a surprising new contender: a biodegradable packaging film made partly from milk protein. Researchers at Flinders University blended calcium ...

Physicists have recreated the Nobel Prize–winning quantum Hall effect using light, revealing that photons can follow the same ...

Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica reimagining is a relatively grounded space opera, but is it truly scientifically ...

William Shatner’s TekWar is a bonafide sci-fi cult classic that could use an upgrade.

Two new studies suggest that routine mammograms could help detect heart disease based on breast arterial calcification.

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

A groundbreaking international clinical trial has been testing an implanted adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) device as a treatment therapy for Parkinson’s.

NCERT reiterated that the objective of the new textbooks is to strengthen constitutional literacy, institutional respect, and ...

Gradually increasing the price of fossil fuels is considered a key element of effective climate policy—and yet it remains the subject of bitter controversy. In a new book, experts from the Potsdam ...