A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

Scientists have cast doubt on the reliability of America's most celebrated rodent forecaster—whose apparent knack of predicting how long winter will last forms a hallowed tradition in the United ...

An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be ...

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A team of engineers, physicists and computer specialists at Canadian company, Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., has unveiled ...

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These ...

The Earth's atmosphere has strengthened its ability to remove air pollutants, including the potent climate-warming gas ...

Museum collections are key to universities' missions to provide education, research, public service and economic development ...

Ecosystems and species across the natural world are in serious trouble. The vast majority of Australians want more government ...

New research reveals the surprising ways atmospheric winds influence ocean eddies, shaping the ocean's weather patterns in ...