Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a strange increase in the radioactive ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

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For the first time, scientists have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed ...

RealClearScience published a portion of our interview with Laban Coblentz, ITER's Head of Communication. He told RCS how the ...

Criminal investigations of heterosexual sexual assault often include a DNA analysis of the woman’s genitals with the aim of ...

It's been a long-held belief that absolute pitch—the ability to identify musical notes without reference—is a rare gift reserved for a select few with special genetic gifts or those who be ...

A physicist suggests that we fix climate change with a 50 Gigaton nuclear bomb. This isn’t a joke. And I think it might actually work. A brief summary of this and other ...

Having a job – whether it’s working for someone else or being their own boss – gives older Americans more than just a way to ...

A team of public health researchers found “very low-certainty evidence” to support a commonly held belief that nicotine ...

Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The ...

Children exposed to second-hand smoke at home are more likely to show certain changes in the epigenome, which can alter the way genes are expressed. These epigenetic changes could influence the develo ...