A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

The genetic origins and evolutionary adaptations of Tibetans have long intrigued researchers. Previously, scientists had ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

The largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet—created by the University of St Andrews—has had a major new release. The BioTIME database offers unprecedented insight into how biodiversity ...

Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

Using the Magellan Clay Telescope, astronomers have performed a spectroscopic study of blue straggler stars in the globular ...