"What got you into astrophysics?" It's a question I'm often asked at outreach events, and I answer by pointing to my early ...

The swirling colors and flowing brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night have secured the painting (and its artist) a ...

One of the researchers described the circumstances that led to the discovery as “serendipity.” This year’s prestigious Lasker ...

Interestingly enough, earthquakes have the ability to cause quartz to form large gold nuggets, a fact that has been ...

James Chen, a professor of microbiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has won a Lasker Award for his discovery of an ...

The particle moves at the speed of light, making it almost impossible to detect. But some scientists are trying to change ...

The researchers believe the horror wasp has gone undiscovered for so long because of its unique nature. Nobody was expecting ...

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," telegraph systems across Europe and North ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

The history of Easter Island's ancient inhabitants has been presented as a warning tale of resource overexploitation.

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Scientists have discovered the cuisine preferences of two resident killer whale populations, also known as orcas: the Alaska residents and the southern residents, which reside primarily in the Salish ...