Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight to reduce global heating is not a new idea. It is time to safely experiment ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

A pulsar’s gentle twinkle is revealing how space quietly bends and delays the signals we receive from the cosmos.

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

Reality is stranger than you think. Seriously. While we go about our daily lives, convinced we understand the basics of ...