COLUMN. A Norwegian experiment suggests that the presence of unexpected materials in nests, such as plastic or metal, could ...

Two competing theories, shock drift acceleration (SDA) and shock surfing acceleration (SSA), have emerged, but observational limitations in space and previous lab experiments have left the ...

Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ...

In collisions of argon and scandium atomic nuclei, scientists from the international NA61/SHINE experiment have observed a ...

Fram2's orbit flew Dragon on a north-to-south trajectory in low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers ...

Bayern Munich has finally done it: they have won the Bundesliga, building up a big enough gap to Bayer Leverkusen to make it ...

An experiment funded by NASA in the 1960s resulted in a dolphin becoming sexually attracted to its trainer. No, you did not ...

Recent findings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument suggest the possibility of new physics that extends beyond the ...

Two competing theories, shock drift acceleration (SDA) and shock surfing acceleration (SSA), have emerged, but observational limitations in space and previous lab experiments have left the ...

There is much evidence — formal from behavioural economics and informal from observation — that humans are dragged into harmful “keeping-up-with-the-Joneses” status races of many sorts. Modern motor ...

Neutron-scattering experiments have revealed a predicted high-pressure phase of ice called ‘plastic ice VII’, in which molecules form crystals, as they do in normal ice, but rotate as in ...