It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

A critical measure of the ocean’s health suggests that the world’s marine systems are in greater peril than scientists had previously realized and that parts of the ocean have already reached ...

A new book tells the stories of scientists “ridiculed, exiled, and imprisoned for being right.” Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at the University of Oxford and writes the Stories of ...

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice ...

A team of neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh has discovered that when the prize ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

Freeze-drying is a case in point—a technology so fundamental to modern medicine that its absence would have rewritten the twentieth century, yet so invisible that few know its name or its makers.

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have uncovered a type of immortal cell in laboratory settings, offering unprecedented potential for medical research and treatment. These cells, with their ...

Deep beneath the rolling hills of New Zealand’s North Island, a long-sealed chamber has opened a window into a world that ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question still lingers—was it worth it?

One of the problems with the study of consciousness is the lack of a universally accepted operational definition. Scientist René Descartes famously proposed the idea of cogito ergo sum (“I think, ...