A technique NASA developed to sharpen satellite images of Earth is now exposing ancient rock paintings that are nearly invisible to the naked eye. Researchers in Australia have used the tool, called DStretch, to bring...
Kashmir's lakes and wetlands have been disappearing for decades, and a new study suggests the pace of loss may be outpacing efforts to save them. The...
Fuel cells, the silent workhorses behind hydrogen cars and portable power, depend on a precious metal that costs nearly as much as gold: platinum...
Two satellites, one from NASA and one from Europe, are giving forecasters a sharper view of how hurricanes form and intensify during El Niño. The...
The earliest insects may not have been the uniform, simple creatures scientists long imagined. A set of oddball fossils, recently described by...
The active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, semaglutide, appears to do more than control diabetes and weight. New research presented at the European...
More than 80 percent of the world's insect species live in the tropics, yet conservation science largely ignores them. A new global framework from...
After eight years and 9.9 billion kilometers, the BepiColombo spacecraft has finally reached Mercury, and for the first time, the entire journey has...
A quartz deposit in central China has been found to have purity levels highly similar to the prized Spruce Pine standard from the United States...
A car-sized robot has just passed a milestone no human will ever experience: 5,000 Martian days on another planet. NASA's Curiosity rover, which...
A new study has found that babies born to mothers with anemia have smaller brains than those born to mothers without the condition. The research...
Halley's Comet has teased humanity for centuries, but no spacecraft has ever managed to stay with it. The last time it swung near the sun in 1986, a...
In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous territories keep forests just as healthy as official protected areas, and community-managed forests show the...
Romantic love may follow hidden mathematical rules, and scientists say the tipping point between lasting affection and slow decay can be modeled with...
A colossal cosmic cavity, carved by the violent lives of young stars, glows in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The structure, called a...
