Category: Science

On a radiant July afternoon, a pair of scientists hung their heads off the side of a boat and peered into the brilliant blue water

Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants. (Image credit: Cemile Bingol/Digital Vision Vectors)

Neeltje Boogert, an associate professor at the University of Exeter in the U.K., is the senior author of a new scientific study about how to

A rollercoaster that once sat on the Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, N.J., rests in the ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 after the pier

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that’s the darkest of all?

A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it was the

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster fullerenes, after the iconic 20th-century inventor.

Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago.

IBM has released two new complex quantum processors alongside a new framework that would allow us to track the first demonstration of quantum advantage.

Archaeotherium, or North American “hell pigs,” had different feeding strategies depending on their size, according to preliminary research presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.

A man in New Jersey has died from a meat allergy that people can develop after being bitten by certain tick species.

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed