One of the major challenges in deciphering Ice Age bones is resolving a conflict in the records between what they say, that ...

Continuous long-term measurement underground at a mine in northern Ontario provided evidence of sustained accumulation and discharge of natural hydrogen generated within Earth’s crust. Credit: ...

Beamforming, introduced in WiFi 5, works by having devices share details about how signals travel through their environment.

The vibrations of atoms in a crystal generate one type of rotation, an intrinsic spin-like trait called angular momentum. For ...

Gold has long been prized for its stability, but in the world of chemistry, that stability of gold is precisely what has caused the problem. The process of oxygen activation, the first step in many ...

A new clinical trial, published in the journal Current Developments in Nutrition, found that eating 6–7 ounces of beef every ...

With every cycle of a gas-powered engine, three-quarters of the energy in the fuel goes out as heat through the exhaust and into the atmosphere. A ...

It would be like detecting a hidden inflection in our own Sun’s spectrum, yet no such evidence can be found! Past solar ...

Astronomers have spotted a blue straggler orbiting a brown dwarf, the first known system of its kind ever seen. This ...

Most of the infectious diseases that trouble humans today actually began in animals. These are called zoonotic pathogens, meaning they jumped from animals to humans at some point in history. Long ...

Cement is the glue that makes concrete strong. Mix it with water, and it binds sand and gravel into the world’s most used building material. But making cement isn’t simple. The starting rock, ...