A type of hydrogen that doesn't interact with light could explain how long neutrons live and reveal the identity of the ...

Great eared nightjars live on the forest floor, remaining motionless throughout the day, camouflaged among leaf litter and tree stumps.

Scientists have found a way to monitor volcanic carbon dioxide levels — one of the first signs a volcano might be about to ...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an ...

A British metal detectorist discovered a gold band with an engraved date-of-death in Norfolk.

A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The ...

An artificial intelligence safety firm has found that OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models sometimes refuse to shut down, and will ...

First theorized in 1938, heat's wave-like flow through superfluids, known as "second sound", has proven difficult to directly observe. Now, a new technique has finally done it, and could be used to ...

Giant groundsels are rare plants that grow up to 30 feet (9 meters) tall. They are endemic to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

The world’s largest drone "mothership" is getting ready for deployment in June. It’s designed to carry and launch up to 100 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has broken its own record once again, spotting the most distant, early galaxy in the known ...