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Wildfire smoke from Canada has hit Norway, which is more than 3,000 miles from the North American country.

A large, skyscraper-size asteroid will pass close to Earth Sunday night (June 11), missing our planet by a few million miles.

A resident of Riverview, Florida was bitten by a relative and later developed a "flesh-eating" infection -- likely from the bite.

Juvenile great white sharks are near to people in Southern California nearly every day but rarely bite them.

At least one Medici was plagued by a deadly strain of malaria, analysis of organ tissue from the Medici family tomb reveals.

Metformin, which is commonly used to control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, was more effective than placebo at preventing lingering complications 10 months after a coronavirus infection

Italy's Campi Flegrei is showing some troubling early warning signs, scientists have discovered -- although they caution that its eruption is far from certain.

A group of researchers from Tohoku University has unveiled a new material that exhibits enormous magnetoresistance, paving the way for developments in non-volatile magnetoresistive memory (MRAM).

An international research team has succeeded for the first time in measuring the electron spin in matter--i.e., the curvature of space in which electrons live and move--within "kagome materials," a new class of quantum m...

A computer model created by researchers can detect ChatGPT-generated fake studies more than 99% of the time, a new study shows.

We've all played at least once with a spring toy, but did you know that light can be shaped like a spring too?

Scientists from the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory made an intriguing discovery while conducting experiments to characterize magnetism in a material known as a dilute magnetic topological insulator where...

Quantum information (QI) processing may be the next game changer in the evolution of technology, by providing unprecedented computational capabilities, security and detection sensitivities. Qubits, the basic hardware ele...

Harvestmen can shed legs when attacked by predators, but this survival tactic may have lifelong ramifications for the future sexual strategies of young males

If any alien civilisations have spotted the new supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, they may use it to try to make contact

NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged into the sun's atmosphere to capture the granular details of how its solar wind is made.

The patterns of light hold tremendous promise for a large encoding alphabet in optical communications, but progress is hindered by their susceptibility to distortion, such as in atmospheric turbulence or in bent optical ...

The plant-eating, raptor-like dinosaur lived during a time of great transition around 99 million years ago and was named after the Roman god Janus.

Findings published in Nature settle the dispute: phonons can be chiral. This fundamental concept, discovered using circular X-ray light, sees phonons twisting like a corkscrew through quartz.

A weird and wonderful array of technologies are competing to become the standard-bearer for quantum computing. The latest contender wants to encode quantum information in sound waves. One thing all quantum computers have...

Looking for the perfect gift this Father's Day? Our Father's Day Science gift guide has 24 of our favorite items for your science-loving dad.

John Vaillant chronicles the most destructive fire in Canada's history, and explores what lies ahead, in this timely book