The Salar de Uyuni desert is famous for its gleaming surface waters and hexagonal salt crust patterns, but below this ...

New methods applied in live mice suggest that molecules called neuropeptides, not neurotransmitters, play the main role in ...

We have no written evidence about how people lived in Europe during the Bronze Age (2300–800 BCE), so archaeologists piece ...

Citizen scientists have discovered what may be a brown dwarf racing through the cosmos at around 1.2 million miles per hour.

Huge iron ore deposits in Western Australia's Hamersley Province formed when major tectonic events led to the breakup of ...

The last gasp of a "cannibal" coronal mass ejection that slammed Earth on Tuesday will bring lovely auroras to parts of the ...

Little is known about the fate of PFAS in our environment, but new research finds that bacteria in wastewater can degrade ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, has some of the most carbon dioxide ...

Behind every Olympian is an ensemble of coaches, physiotherapists, nutritionists and doctors who help keep the athlete on top ...

New ion-trap chip eschews lasers for an integrated circuit that can be mass produced in existing semiconductor factories.

The unusual patterns, found beneath West Antarctica's Doston Ice Shelf, could help scientists to better understand how ...

A peculiar leopard-spotted rock, found beside an ancient, dried-out river in Mars' Jezero crater, contains some tantalizing ...