The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

A fresh study shows that sound waves can flip on genes, tweak how cells behave, and even put the brakes on fat production ...

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A new study led by astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has revealed that planets ...

NSF, founded in 1950, has a $9 billion budget that can be a lifeline for resource-strapped professors and the younger researchers they recruit to their teams. It has shifted priorities over time but ...

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

Most sharks are thought to be silent because they lack swim bladders — air-filled sacs commonly used by fish to make sounds.

Scientists in Brazil found a very old ant fossil. This fossil is 113 million years old. It is of a 'hell ant,' a type of ...

The fata morgana on my horizon was the illusion that science is a quiet, orderly, aristocratic thing. Science happened in ...