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A 2021 satellite photo captured rare, wispy streaks of ice stretching across an ocean channel separating the Ronne Ice Shelf and a patch of multi-year sea ice in Antarctica.

Earth was hit by a "severe" G4-class geomagnetic storm on Monday morning, increasing the chances of auroras in the northern U.S. tonight.

Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars's surface - the latest in a long series of potential water spottings on the Red Planet, hinting at its temperate past

Adding or removing neutrons from an atomic nucleus leads to changes in the size of the nucleus. This in turn causes tiny changes in the energy levels of the atom's electrons, known as isotope shifts. Scientists can use p...

Light technology is at the heart of many cutting-edge innovations, from high-speed internet to advanced medical imaging. However, transmitting light through challenging environments, such as turbulent atmospheres or defo...

The Oropouche virus, which some media outlets are calling a "sloth virus," has been seen in European travelers returning home from the Americas.

The stars aren't fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where there wasn't one before, and then it fades away in a matter of days or weeks. The earliest record of s...

SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) Professor of Physics Dr. Amir Fariborz recently published research titled, "An alternative to the Euler equation of rigid body rotational dynamics," in the European Journal of Physi...

An amateur fossil hunter in Mississippi found the first known fossil in the region from a mammoth -- a well-preserved tusk that weighed about 600 pounds (270 kilograms).

A fire at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has former workers at the facility worried about a lack of experienced personnel and equipment needed to keep it safe

A beautiful and rare "cotton candy" lobster caught in New Hampshire may be due to a combination of genetics and diet.

Cases of prostate cancer are surging alarmingly around the world. Thankfully, we are developing more accurate tests that can catch the condition early

NASA's Cold Atom Lab, a first-of-its-kind facility aboard the International Space Station, has taken another step toward revolutionizing how quantum science can be used in space. Members of the science team measured subt...

Quantum materials--those with electronic properties that are governed by the principles of quantum mechanics, such as correlation and entanglement--can exhibit exotic behaviors under certain conditions, such as the abili...

The Amazfit Balance is now 15% off at Amazon and the cheapest it has ever been.

Rat poison detected in around a third of wild mammal carnivores -- including those that don't normally eat rodents, such as mountain lions and gray wolves.

Scientists from Yale University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a systematic approach to understanding how energy is lost from the materials that make up qubits. En...

Cilia are sensory structures extending from the surface of some cells. These hair-like structures are known to contribute to the sensorimotor capabilities of various living organisms, including humans.

Most people much prefer algorithms to make decisions about the redistribution of resources -- but they see the outcomes of human-made decisions as more favorable.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found news clues in the longstanding mystery of why the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than our star's surface.

The carbonate compensation depth -- a zone where high pressure and low temperature creates conditions so acidic it dissolves shell and skeleton -- could make up half of the global ocean by the end of the century.

Squeaking metal can be grating on the nerves, but it serves an important purpose.