L urking in the cooling canals of a Florida nuclear power plant, an unlikely population of American alligators has taken up residence and continues to thrive. Fear not – the crocodiles aren’t glowing, ...

You may not think something like a comic is suitable for a courtroom, but it may be a powerful way to communicate complex scientific ideas.

Suni Williams conducted a record-breaking spacewalk outside the ISS. An amateur astrophotographer photographed her from Earth.

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Quantum devices use qubits (quantum bits), which allow computations to extend from the classical 0 and 1 options of bits. Papic and his group have used a 5,564-qubit quantum annealer to simulate a one ...

The team, from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, designed an experiment to test escape behavior in ...

The scroll has become carbonated so can't be physically opened, but digital scanners are revealing the invisible words it contains.

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

The super-low, super-loud songs of flight species like blue and fin whales are the perfect tool: they can attract a female from hundreds of kilometers away, while being acoustically invisible to ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study ...

The quasar in question is called J1601+3102. Its light comes to us from 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Quasars can ...