The scientists hope to use the new perspective to better gauge "novel mechanical, electrical, or optical properties" of the ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A scouting report of the Colorado Buffaloes and Texas Tech Red Raiders ahead of Saturday’s game at Jones AT&T Stadium in ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brains to explain our ...

A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been abruptly diverted from its usual task to help in the increasingly desperate search for the missing from Spain’s floods ...

Researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner of competitions, including sports, games and social hierarchies in both humans and animals.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

At least Florida had a whole three weeks to recover from the last storm this time. Tropical Storm Rafael formed in the Caribbean Monday morning and was nearing tropical storm strength by the afternoon ...

A community forest which has seen nearly 2,000 acres (809 hectares) of new woodland and trees planted in parts of Yorkshire ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the ...