Billion-year-old rocks in South Africa hold evidence for the onset of plate tectonics early in Earth’s history.
Polar ice sheets are melting faster, slowing Earth’s spin. That is changing how we synchronize our clocks to tell time.
Astronomers have captured polarized light coming from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, giving insight into its magnetic fields.
No bigger than a grain of rice, the heart of the instrument is the latest entrant in the quest to build ever tinier gravity-measuring devices.
Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly sized prehistoric freshwater turtles, it lived thousands of years ago.
A patient with an unusual variation of the condition helped researchers visualize the demonic distortions he sees when looking at human faces.
In patients with brain fog, MRI scans revealed signs of damaged blood vessels in their brains, researchers reported February 22 in Nature Neuroscience. In these people, dye injected into the ...
Nordic countries topped the 2024 world happiness rankings. But culture dictates how people respond to surveys of happiness, a researcher argues.
A search for environmental DNA from critically endangered Pithecopus rusticus frogs turned up DNA from invasive American bullfrogs instead.
The brain activity of dogs that were expecting one toy but were shown another suggests canines create mental concepts of everyday objects.
The acoustic qualities of instruments may have influenced variations in musical scales and preferred harmonies.