Science and Technolgy blog
The Marble Caves sit on the shores of a turquoise glacial lake in southern Chile. Light bounces off the water onto the walls, creating a magical, ever-changing display inside the caverns.
Two years ago, a couple of high-school classmates each composed a mathematical marvel. It was a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Now, at age 19, they’ve just reported finding 10 more proofs of it. For more than 2,000 years,…
The Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers will mounted with experimental hypersonic weapon systems, but what makes this technology so lethal?
It’s all about perspective: The higher you go, the more you can see the curve.
China’s planned mission to bring rock samples to Earth from Mars would beat both NASA and the European Space Agency to the punch.
Now atop Jezero Crater, the robotic explorer found quartz indicative of habitable environments and possibly the oldest rocks yet seen in the solar system.
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.
A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.
Whether delivered in water or toothpaste, fluoride can help guard teeth against decay. But how?
Most present-day humans carry a small amount of Neandertal DNA that can be traced back to a single period of interbreeding, two genetic analyses find.
