Scientists finally succeeded in exiting an atomic resonance with a laser in the near ultraviolet. It's a remarkable feat that ...

(via PBS Terra) In pavement cracks, roadside medians, and parking lots, there are incredible miniature civilizations booming ...

Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly ...

Considered among the “world’s worst” aquatic weeds, a northern hydrilla subspecies (lithuanica) hinders recreational ...

Lots of languages and species are going extinct, but because others keep getting found or described, the official counts of ...

Here is a thought experiment for “National Infertility Awareness Week”: imagine in vitro fertilization (IVF) did not exist, and the only solution for couples facing infertility was to optimize their ...

A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help children await heart transplants at home, not in the hospital, has performed well in the first stage of human testing. The pump, a new type of ventric ...

We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor’s blaring TV to sounds from a co-worker’s cubicle, unwanted noise remains a resou ...

At the end of the Cold War, many thinkers optimistically predicted that globalization would cause societies’ social values to ...

There's a strange, unexplained feature of the Cosmic Microwave Background which seems to be aligned with the Solar System, ...

In 2023, the ostensibly authoritative World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that non-sugar sweeteners “not be used as a ...

A Siberian squirrel mother feeds her babies to build their strength throughout the winter. But once Spring arrives, these youngsters must take to the skies themselves.