Astronomers use the term dark energy to refer to energy in the universe that is unaccounted for by ordinary matter but ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Biomass energy is a form of renewable energy derived from organic materials such as wood, crop waste, and other plant or ...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

Here's some science trivia for you: unlike the inner retina in most animals (including us), birds' inner retinas function without oxygen. And now, researchers led by a team from Aarhus University in ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

Once this effect kicks in, the black hole discharges rapidly and explodes. Crucially, the UMass team calculated that this ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

Dancing uses overlooked senses and may tie to our deep evolutionary past. Knowing that can only make it more magical.

Together with colleagues from Stanford University, USA, researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) have, for the first time, created a comprehensive cell ...