To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists has identified a mechanism that corrects visual distortions caused by movement in animals. The study, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Lung cancer in people who have never smoked is rising, and figures show China is at particular risk of air pollution-related ...

President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders that respect biological reality in areas from medicine to sports to intimate spaces.

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

Music tailored to your internal tempo may offer the best pain relief, study finds.

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...