Category Science & Discovery

Turkish authorities in the historic city of Niğde recently detained six people after finding an unusual possession in one of their homes: a medieval mummy allegedly destined for sale on the black market. The raid, conducted by the Provincial Gendarmerie…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its atmosphere, however, surface water could no longer persist. The fate of Mars’s water—whether it was…

Saturn and a few of its many moons, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STSCI/AURA)/Science Photo Library Astronomers have announced the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, raising questions about why the planet has…

Range anxiety—the fear that an electric vehicle won’t have enough battery power to reach its destination—remains one of the biggest obstacles to widespread EV adoption. A poll conducted last year by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found…

Red indicates regions where extinction falls off more rapidly at long wavelengths (the red end of the spectrum), while blue indicates that extinction is less dependent on wavelength. Regions with insufficient data are shown in white. The gray contours enclose…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an activist against vaccination, now oversees the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public-health agencies.Credit: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty With the epicentre of a deadly measles outbreak roughly 120 kilometres away, Katherine Wells is trying…

If you were to travel more than 120 million years back in time to the Early Cretaceous or Jurassic Period, you might see dinosaurs with striped tails and ruddy crests, primitive birds with iridescent feathers, and forests dominated by giant…

LEVIN: Well, I think that we have an opportunity as research scientists to dig really deep into particular ideas of our choosing, but we don’t really get a chance ourselves even to talk to other people deeply in other fields,…

Schematic Illustration of Active Material Crack Restoration via Elastic Nano Spring. Credit: POSTECH A research team has developed technology that could dramatically increase the lifespan and energy density of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. An EV battery must maintain its performance…

Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the administration of US President Donald Trump. The researchers say they are looking…