The American Medical Association and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a ...

First names in Western countries today are more diverse than they were before early modern states evolved. This difference started to emerge in the 17th century in response to a change that took place ...

There have been great sci-fi shows, but many of the genre's best, like Babylon 5, Continuum, and Fringe, completely fall ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...

Cortina, no fewer than seven competitors over 40 will be in contention for a medal, including Lindsey Vonn, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and others.

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...

Existing technology is being upcycled and deployed in new ways as companies seek to measure more data, more accurately.

As Arctic air plunged into sunny Florida this past weekend, it made for a mesmerizing sight in a satellite video: parallel lines of clouds colloquially called “cloud streets” streamed from the land ...

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, ...

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?