The impact did not just trigger this enormous tsunami: It heated the atmosphere, boiled off the top layer of the ocean, and ...

C hina has broken a record by creating the world’s most powerful resistive magnet, just surpassing the previous record set by ...

When we die, our bodies release something called putrescine, which is responsible for the horrendous smell that comes from ...

These weather oscillations persisted even at a time when the continents were distributed differently, the modelling shows.

More than any other, this isotope alerts us to exploding stars’ influence on the Solar System, but the signs are not always ...

E xtinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Some of these ancient cultural and economic hubs are still standing today, and have been inhabited ever since their ...

The unique regeneration capacity of nerve cells has been the focus of spinal injury research for decades, but a new method ...

“It is the position of the AASM that the United States should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of permanent standard ...

Q uasars occur when supermassive black holes gobble up an incredible amount of gas. Observations and general wisdom suggested ...

Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called ...

The new species is long extinct but would have been flying around what is now Australia in the Miocene Period. It is thought that the sawfly is between 11 and 16 million years old and is the first of ...