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A trick that forces photons to travel in entangled pairs could help send energy across great distances, thanks to quantum teleportation     

This space wallpaper shows an example of a bipolar planetary nebula known as NGC 6537 taken with the New Technology Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory.

If an earthquake originated in California's San Andreas fault, Los Angeles would be impacted by stronger than expected shakes. Researchers at Stanford University used virtual earthquakes to prove how the geography of the...

The bones reveal signs they were used in medical schools during a time when two men murdered to supply the schools with fresh corpses.

Scientists have discovered fossils of three species of big-headed fly that lived about 50 million years ago.

Economics researcher Donna Ginther explores why so few women occupy senior research posts.

As climate change has shortened the hunting season on sea ice, polar bears have shifted to eating more land-based foods such as geese, eggs and caribou.

As climate change has shortened the hunting season on sea ice, polar bears have shifted to eating more land-based foods such as geese, eggs and caribou.

The Food and Drug Administration said it plans study the safety of a compound found in some caramel food coloring.

NASA's new communications satellite, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-L, will launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Jan. 23. The space agency has set a 40-minute launch window beginning at 9:05 p...

A male tungara frog's come-hither croak can attract the interest of a female - or a leathery-winged predator. A tungara frog readies his mating call. Ryan Taylor

Dog sex has made it possible for the world's oldest cancer to last 11,000 years and travel the world, say researchers who found patient zero was genetically similar to an Alaskan malamute or husky.

Skull scans of the living might one day help forensic anthropologists solve cold cases, a new study suggests.

Bats can sense ripples created by male frogs croaking from puddles, raising the risk of these frogs becoming midnight snacks for the flying mammals. Nevertheless, the frogs seem to get benefits from using the ripples to ...

No other animal senses color like the colorful mantis shrimp, which uses 12 receptors to quickly detect colors in its reef environment. The crustacean's eye works like a satellite sensor.

A male túngara frog issues mating calls from shallow puddles, creating ripples that boost frog-to-frog communication but also leave him vulnerable to predation from frog-eating bats, as seen in the second clip.

The colorful crustaceans have super vision of sorts, sporting 12 different types of photoreceptors when four to seven are all that is needed.

A new study suggests recent reports of the "death" of the New Madrid Seismic Zone were premature.

How would electrons behave if confined to a wire so slender they could pass through it only in single-file?

The bug-like eyes of mantis shrimp have a unique colour vision system that may recognise colours faster than human eyes     

A venereal cancer prevalent in dogs throughout the world 11,000 years ago still carries the genes of the single dog in which it began life     

On June 16, 1995, Robert Nemiroff (MTU) and Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) posted the first Astronomy Picture of the Day. The site received 14 page views that day. The breathtaking beauty and didactic efforts of the APOD's daily p...