(CNN) Microfossils found in China have revealed what could be our earliest known ancestor on the tree of life, researchers say. But don’t go looking for a resemblance.
Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt, President Trump’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency, gave evasive answers to hundreds of questions from Senators trying to evaluate his fitness to for the office.
A new artificial skin can sense temperature changes like a pit viper senses its prey. Researchers from Caltech in the US and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed a flexible skin-like material out of pectin and water.
Talk about a reality check: The entire universe could be a “vast and complex hologram,” scientists reported Monday. Also, even more unsettling, what we think of as reality may be just an illusion.
A pod rolls down an enclosed test track next to SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. (SpaceX Photo). More. Three student teams got through the engineering gauntlet and sent their Hyperloop pods through a mile-long tube to test a new mode of …
The problem with asteroids passing near Earth is they’re often difficult to spot. Fortunately, the hardest ones to see in our neighborhood also tend to be the smaller ones.
After recent events, we’re all ready to hop aboard the next flight to Mars. But before us Earthlings embark on a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, we need to understand how the harsh conditions of space can affect our bodies.
This image shows a region in Saturn’s outer B ring. Photograph: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email; View more sharing options; Share on LinkedIn · Share on Pinterest · Share on Google+ …
It’s no longer just a wild theory. Two independent teams of physicists have followed a recipe to build the world’s first versions of an enigmatic form of matter – time crystals.
A technology-wielding archeologist billed as a real-world “Indiana Jones” on Monday launched an online platform that lets anyone help discover archeological wonders and fight looting.
Concern in the science community rose this week about possible Trump administration curbs on researchers. Responses range from defending ‘facts’ to actually entering the political fray.
“The void” is more than a metaphor for gnawing existential pain. In fact, new research from an international team of scientists suggests that a huge void outside our extragalactic neighborhood could be impacting the way our galaxy—and others around …
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Symbol: GILD) has been named as a Top 25 ”Dividend Giant” by ETF Channel , with a whopping $5.67B worth of stock held by ETFs, and above-average ”DividendRank” statistics including a strong 2.63% yield, according to the most …
NASA scientists are working on a liquid-based technique to detect signs of alien life on extraterrestrial ocean worlds. How does the capillary electrophoresis method work?
Some things really were better in the good old days. It’s not just nostalgia but scientific fact, for example, that tomatoes used to taste a lot better.
Researchers at the River Basin Center and the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute have scored the watersheds of the Southeast for the conservation priority.
Some people who study climate change believe that addressing it later — when economic growth has made humanity wealthier — would be better than taking drastic measures immediately.
In another incident of cruelty on dolphins, tourists on a beach in Argentina continued clicking selfies with a baby dolphin that came too close to beach and died.
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