President Donald Trump announced today that he would be signing an executive order as early as next week against paper straws ...

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's premiere AI research lab, has surpassed the average gold medalist in ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.” ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

George R.R. Martin joins a growing list of authors, actors and musicians who have published scientific research papers.

Imagine resurrecting a long-debunked myth, slapping a fresh coat of pseudoscience on it, and dropping it just in time to sway ...

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...

Scientists statistically analyzed large amounts of data collected by Burmese python contractors, revealing critical insights about how to most efficiently remove the reptiles.

Forget about Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali, the fastest punch in the world belongs to the mantis shrimp. This shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet and remain intact despite the ...

Congressman Don Beyer, a former long-time member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the U.S. Representative for a Northern Virginia congressional district that includes the ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.