As the modern Great Barrier Reef emerged after the last ice age, it had to cope with multiple environmental stresses—rising sea levels, increased sediment from a flooding coastline, ocean turbulence and likely warming oceans.

Auditory pareidolia is a phenomenon in which people can hear familiar sounds from seemingly static background noise.

Scientists have designed a physical qubit that behaves as an error-correcting "logical qubit," and now they think they can scale it up to make a useful quantum computer using a few hundred.

A satellite image of the Galápagos Islands' La Cumbre volcano shows lava seeping from the iguana-covered mountain days into an ongoing, months-long eruption.

Foldable origami with thick panels opens a world of possibilities. For the first time, engineers at the University of Michigan have shown that load-bearing structures,...

Information from igneous zircon molecules gives researchers new insight into the workings of the inner Earth. Little is known about the nature and evolution of...

Case study highlights added danger of illicit fentanyl, especially to first-time users. The man arrived unconscious and near death. Previously healthy with no known medical...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and their partners have created a flexible, waterproof organic photovoltaic film. This innovative film enables solar...

Gov. Gavin Newsom will speak at a climate summit of mayors and governors hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican in May.

Life-saving if it works.

Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.

Scientists have yet to reach the bottom of the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, which new measurements hint could be connected to a labyrinth of submarine caves and tunnels.

Artificial intelligence trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists helped identify more than 1,000 never-before-seen solar system objects from old Hubble images spanning two decades.

IC 776, a dwarf galaxy located in the Virgo galaxy cluster, is the subject of intensive study due to its emission of X-rays, offering insights...