The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development ...

The latest round of strategic seed funding is propelling innovations in imaging, brain health, autoimmune therapies, and more ...

Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

For 50 years, scientists at the San Diego Zoo have been collecting and storing cells from rare and endangered species in its Frozen Zoo with an eye to the future. The future is here. The San Diego Zoo ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

California photographer and conservationist Krystle Hickman is on a quest to document hundreds of species of native bees, ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

SpaceX shifts focus to creating a self-growing lunar city before Mars, according to Elon Musk. Additionally, radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft has unveiled a large underground lava tube on ...

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.