When the battery is connected up to a circuit, electrons move through the external wires – that’s what creates the electrical ...

A population of stars more than 13 billion years old represents the original disk from which the Milky Way formed, a team of ...

The last true sustained reversal of the magnetic poles happened around 780,000 years ago – but more recently, around 41,000 years ago, Earth went through the Laschamp event. By studying the ...

Unlike existing devices, this new robotic finger is sensitive enough to "feel" for lumps and can even take a pulse.

The result of the rare deluge has been the appearance of lakes among the sand dunes, even in places like Iriqui National Park ...

S cientists watched as a population of sea snails evolved within just a few years. Along with documenting a vivid example of ...

A survey of 1,000 US adults has found that 25 percent of respondents believe they could have undiagnosed attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, only 13 percent of them had spoken to ...

Sequencing the genome was not an easy task. “Marine species like the Spotted Handfish are notoriously difficult to work with, ...

A chance encounter with a deeply mysterious cephalopod known as the whip-lash squid has been captured on camera some 1,000 ...

"On our first try, Mechazilla caught the booster," SpaceX explained after the test. "Following a successful liftoff, ascent, ...

The Salton Sea region could hold as much as 3,400 kilotons of lithium, enough to support over 375 million batteries for ...