Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to ...

Introduction Have you ever noticed that if you leave an ice cube out on the kitchen counter and come back to check on it in a while, you find a puddle? The same thing happens to ice in nature—if the ...

Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth ...

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David Haskell brings readers through millions of years of botanical history for his latest book, How Flowers Made Our World ...

Centuries-old DNA that was found in these mummies belongs to an extinct viral lineage of smallpox that was brought across the ...

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every ...

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Many of these structures date to around C.E. 100–300, during the time of the Aquiry civilization, and may have been used for ...

A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially ...

A newly discovered change in ribosomal RNA makes protein production more precise, potentially safeguarding these cephalopods’ ...

Smell can bring back vivid childhood memories—the so-called “Proust’s madeleine” phenomenon—and neuroscientists now think ...