New research published in the journal Science reveals the red planet's mantle preserves a record of its violent beginnings.
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania brought quantum networking out of the lab and onto commercial fiber-optic cables using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers today's web.
When a tree dies, it forms the foundation for new life: In a slow, invisible process, leaves, wood and roots are gradually decomposed鈥攏ot by wind or weather, but by millions and millions of tiny organisms.
Air quality scientists have detected elevated levels of hexavalent chromium and silver in air samples collected from the debris cleanup zones for the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which occurred January 2025 in Los Angeles ...
Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on Canadian soil. Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD will give astronomers an unprecedented ...
The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar system. More than just ...
A new species of bacteria of the genus Bartonella has been found in the Amazon National Park in the state of Par谩, Brazil, in phlebotomine insects, also known as sand flies. This type of insect is generally associated with ...
The textbook picture of how planets form鈥攕erene, flat disks of cosmic dust鈥攈as just received a significant cosmic twist.
Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries ...
Lemurs are among the best-known representatives of Madagascar's animal kingdom. They make up more than 15% of all primate species living today鈥攅ven though the island covers less than 1% of Earth's land surface.
