Researchers have made significant progress in developing a new type of qubit , the building block of quantum computers. This breakthrough involves t…
Scientists have revealed the preferential areas in rooms where people can avoid the risk of exposure to supersonic shock waves from a nuclear explosi…
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably point to South America. But North America has rainforests too – and lik…
A team of Chinese scientists has discovered a giant new sinkhole with a forest at its bottom. The sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep, accordin…
An alarming report from the US Department of Agriculture predicts that by 2070, the nation's forests will release substantially more carbon than …
A clay sculpture found inside an Aswan tomb.(Image credit: EIMAWA/MoTA) Archaeologists in Aswan, an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile, have unearth…
Scientists have created a giant quantum tornado inside a helium superfluid, and they want to use it to probe the enigmatic nature of black holes . Th…
China's Chang'e-6 mission has secured a historic victory, becoming the first robotic mission to collect and return lunar samples from the far…
A new technique developed by MIT researchers allows scientists to map gene-enhancer interactions by studying short-lived RNA molecules. This method …
Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have discovered a promising technique for generating magnetic fields using light. Their findi…