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A new time-lapse image shows two major sunspot groups moving across the surface of the sun in December 2022, when the number of solar splotches also skyrocketed to an eight-year high.

This past May the Biden administration allocated $3.16 billion in funding to start securing a battery supply chain for the US. Much of the focus has been on lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles, but soon a differe...

Circadian clock genes in almost all our cells follow regular 24-hour patterns, but can be disrupted by irregular sleep patterns and prolonged light exposure. Now these same disruptions have been found in the cells of can...

A freely available new questionnaire of measures of autism symptoms can help screen for ASD and monitor symptoms over time.

Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first times that laser pulling has been used ...

While conducting an aerial survey of northern Guatemala, researchers detected a sprawling Maya site.

Rydberg atoms and molecules are characterized by having one or more electrons in highly excited bound states. Such atoms and molecules are said to be in "Rydberg states" and are also called "hollow" atoms and molecules. ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed a glowing disc of debris left over from planet formation around a nearby star called AU Microscopii

The gigantic bubble was created by multiple supernova explosions, and researchers finally know what its magnetic field may look like.

In 2013, South Carolinians made the unexpected discovery of a Colonial-era cemetery holding the remains of enslaved people. Now, a genetic analysis of some of these individuals reveals their origins.

Measurements of a blast of radio waves passing through our galaxy have shown that the Milky Way's proportion of visible matter is 40 per cent lower than the rest of the universe

The new ShadowCam instrument has sent its first image back from lunar orbit, showing the inside of an area of the moon that never gets any direct sunlight

A radar system less powerful than a household microwave oven produced some of the best pictures of the moon ever captured.

Dale Greenwalt's book is a gripping look at palaeobiology, a field achieving incredible insights into ancient life on Earth

Photographer Levon Biss's project Extinct and Endangered: Insects in peril combines thousands of shots of insect specimens to create these startlingly clear images

Gloria Mark has studied distraction since 2004. Her first book is a valuable guide to how to balance work and well-being in a world increasingly dependent on tech

Ten years ago, we feared that catastrophic global warming of between 4°C and 5°C by by 2100 was a real risk. Today, that is no longer credible, says Graham Lawton

Anthropomorphising animals such as chimps, dolphins and bees will stifle scientific enquiry instead of encouraging it, says evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk

A massive iceberg that has been stuck on the seafloor in front of the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica for two decades and helped protect it is now floating away

Ambroxol, a common medicine used to treat respiratory illnesses shows promise as a treatment to slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Researchers report ambroxol increases the level of GCase, a protein that allows...

Western fence lizards that experience wildfire learn that fire is a major threat, becoming more alert to the sounds of a blaze than to those of avian predators

After several years of operation, the STEREO collaboration published the final results of their antineutrino studies. With their data, the researchers excluded hints for the existence of sterile neutrinos, an additional ...