Category science

A hut sits at an altidue of 1,800 meters near the Mackenzie Mountains in Yukon, Canada.

A mid-1850s act let the United States seize islands rich in bird guano. Those strategic outposts fueled the U.S. rise to power, a researcher says.

Icebergs and other glacial fragments regularly wash up on Iceland’s southern Diamond Beach, making the sandy strip look like a field of gemstones.

Mealworms for lunch? Ewww! For many of us, that would be our first reaction to finding these beetle larvae on today’s menu. But if we’re not so quick to “ick,” the protein from these insects has a lot to offer,…

The new study models how light spreads at the nanometer scale to understand how energy moves between rare earth emitters and the quantum defects within a solid material.

On Sept. 30, NASA’s Perseverance rover turned its eyes toward the sky and photographed a solar eclipse from Mars, capturing the tiny moon Phobos crossing the sun’s face.

Scientists haven’t actually confirmed a link between age and hangover severity, but there are some reasons why older people might feel worse after a night of drinking than young folks would.

New research finds that marmots who experience adversity early in life have a lesser chance of survival.

Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial infections. However, it has not yet been tested in humans.

Rediscovery of giant salmon carp in Cambodia sparks hope for the rare fish’s survival and efforts to conserve one of the greatest diversity hot spots.