Category: Science

Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven have succeeded in developing a process that purifies air and, at the same time, generates power.

The time it takes for a leaf to decompose might be the key to understanding how temperature affects ecosystems, according to Kansas State University ecologists. 

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to where it is today

Researchers have mapped the distribution of a jellyfish subspecies and found that creatures which lack a distinctive “knob” are somehow prevented from leaving the Arctic.

Learn about dementia, how it affects people, how it’s diagnosed and what treatments are available.

Research based on game theory suggests if we program AI agents with a sense of guilt, they could behave more cooperatively, much like humans do.

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

A super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, where liquid water might exist on its surface under

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of

Researchers have unveiled an ancient Egyptian handprint that was left on a soul house tomb offering 4,000 years ago.

Studies suggest that people who had seasonal flus or vaccinations have low antibody levels against H5N1 bird flu.

Much of the country is deep in the middle of a heat wave right now. And every summer, Duane Stilwell’s town in Arizona seems to

The twilight zone of the ocean is a mysterious place. At 200-1000 meters below the surface, it’s a tough place to study. That’s why, during

In 1971, Fan Chung, then in her second year of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, received an assignment. Her thesis adviser, Herbert Wilf