On Feb. 3, an asteroid more than three times as long as it is wide safely flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers, or a little under five times the distance between ...

Seagrasses are flowering plants that form dense underwater meadows in coastal waters worldwide, from the frigid seas of the Arctic to the warm shallows of the Caribbean. These meadows provide a refuge ...

The new device, which looks like a pair of plastic pinchers, is the first to be able to pick up individual droplets of liquid.

Tangled polymer chains help hydrogels hold their shape despite being full of water.

The 80-cm- (31.5-inch) long footprint was possibly made by a Megalosaurus-like theropod dinosaur, and is assigned to the ichnogenus Megalosauripus.

Nature - Machine learning tools already help mathematicians to formulate new theories and solve tough problems. But they’re set to shake up the field even more.

Three breaches over as many years all carried out by the same threat actor.

Archaeologists have unearthed the bottom half of a manual flush toilet that dates back 2,400 years in the Yueyang archaeological site in China’s Shaanxi province.

Bone has the amazing capacity to regenerate. After a fracture, bone will heal without scarring in healthy people. In aging individuals, or for people with diseases like diabetes, approximately 10% of ...

With surgical precision.

The mystery of how the ancient city of Great Zimbabwe prospered for centuries in a region plagued by droughts has finally been solved. The ruins of the first major city in southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe, can be found in the mountains of southeastern Zimbabwe.…

Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory has published a Perspectives piece in the journal Science arguing that NASA should send a dedicated probe ...

Nature - Control measures such as quarantine could end the outbreak in Equatorial Guinea quickly — good news for inhabitants but a mixed blessing for clinical trials.

Amateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters.

An amateur Belgian archaeologist was metal detecting in the Kortessem region when he unearthed a rare piece of a mysterious Roman geometric device known as a dodecahedron.

A team of oceanographers filmed the video in 1986 during the first detailed study of the sunken ship

A century ago, a Princeton mathematician created what would become a mainstay of the American playground

Whether the circle is as big as planet Mars or as small as a tennis ball, the ratio of its circumference divided by its diameter will always equal pi (3.14). But why?