Researchers have developed a sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can measure forces and twisting motions in all directions using light instead of traditional electronics. The new sensor ...

From seasonal farmhands to health care workers to high-level software analysts, immigrant workers play a significant role in ...

One night last fall, University of Cincinnati astrophysics graduate Paul Smith waited anxiously for data to start rolling ...

Seasonal models are predicting an El Niño climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more ...

The four-foot-tall Emperor penguin of Antarctica may be the most iconic member of this unique family of birds, but 17 other ...

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact ...

A study published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology has identified the earliest evidence of prehistoric ...

Antarctica is being ravaged by a triple-whammy of climate chaos that has melted sea ice to record lows, a new study has ...

The mysterious origin of an impressive cloud disturbance on Venus has now been revealed by a team including the University of Tokyo. Researchers used numerical models to show that an enormous ...

A huge 11,000-carat ruby has been discovered in Myanmar, state media reported Friday, one of the largest ever found in the ...

A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope.

Battery acid from old cars, with a little help from a catalyst, can give plastic waste a new purpose, using it to drive the ...