This week, the Curiosity rover found large carbon deposits on Mars, suggesting an ancient carbon cycle. Researchers exploring ...

As NASA prepares to return to the moon, studying astronaut health and safety is a top priority. Scientists monitor and ...

Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications.

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria allows us ...

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the ...

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the ...

The professional world has no shortage of micromanagers—or, as Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...