The world is facing multiple—potentially catastrophic—crises, including inequality, poverty, food insecurity, climate change ...

When the Paris agreement on climate change was gaveled into being in December 2015, it briefly looked like that rarest of ...

The word laser usually conjures up an image of a strongly concentrated and continuous light beam. Lasers that produce such ...

According to highly cited conventional models, cooling and a major drop in sea levels about 34 million years ago should have ...

When lightning strikes, the electrons come pouring down. In a new study, researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, ...

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

This week, astronomers considered whether dark energy varies over cosmic timescales. Via neutron analysis, physicists ...

The moon's impact on our planet, culture, and society goes beyond just affecting tides. Recent research by Texas A&M ...

Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom ...

Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers have achieved the first-ever "movie" of electric charges traveling across the interface of two ...

When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets draw in physicists, they take a quantum look.