Greater mouse-tailed bats crawl backwards over cave walls, and it seems they use their long tails to help feel their way ...

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

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A huge colony of Pavona coral near the coast of Saudi Arabia is thought to be the largest living example found in the Red Sea ...

Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of ...

Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...

A nearly complete skeleton found in a cave in France belonged to a group known as the Palaeolithic dogs and its skeleton ...

An aerodynamic material that mimics shark skin helps planes fly with less drag – and it can be added to existing aircraft ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

A daily pill developed by the US pharmaceutical company Lilly may become a convenient alternative to injectable drugs like ...

Powering quantum computers with quantum batteries would reduce the energy needed for cooling and enable machines to pack in ...