Researchers observed a humpback whale mother staying beside her presumed stillborn calf for hours and possibly days off Australia’s Gold Coast. She maintained eye contact and remained close to the ...

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, ...

Stanford researchers have recorded the first real-time quantum jumps of sound, watching single phonons abruptly vanish from one energy state to another. The breakthrough could open new paths for ...

Researchers have created a concrete mixture that is both stronger and capable of absorbing carbon dioxide. The best formula, ...

Researchers have found evidence that long COVID may damage dopamine releasing neurons in the brain, potentially explaining ...

Genetic evidence has revealed a previously unknown gentoo penguin species on the remote Kerguelen Islands and shown that ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a surprisingly simple way to turn polyethylene, the common plastic used in shopping bags and cutting boards, into gasoline and diesel-like ...

Stem cell transplants helped regenerate stroke-damaged brain tissue in mice, producing new neurons and restoring lost motor function. The treatment also improved blood vessels, inflammation, and the ...

A large Amazon study suggests the most powerful conservation move may be protecting the forests that are already standing. Preventing damage from wildfires and logging delivered the greatest ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has successfully activated its 300-megapixel infrared camera, which will capture enormous ...

Common preservatives hiding in processed foods may carry unexpected heart risks, with heavy consumption linked to ...

Physicists have put a decades-old idea about why the strange rules of quantum mechanics disappear in our everyday world to ...