Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explored ancient myths and folklore about creating automation, artificial ...

From the surface, Earth looks like a relatively ordinary rocky planet, wrapped in clouds and a thin blue atmosphere. A new line of research argues that, hundreds of millions of years ago, it may have ...

Fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even a few mammals rely on magnetoreception for navigation. But the exact mechanism ...

An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior of earthquake waves, in Earth's inner core. A team led by scientists from ...

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...

The idea that Mars could affect Earth’s climate sounds dramatic, since climate change is usually linked to cars, factories, forests, and oceans, not distant planets. Yet Earth is part of a solar ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

Global alert map: 9.3% of the earth is an outbreak hotspot; Latin America and Oceania have high disease risk and low health ...

The 26-foot-tall (8-meter-tall) cargo lander is expected to embark on its first flight during the first quarter of 2026, ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

In 1996, Dr. Stephanie Forsberg was in the inaugural class of the science research program at East Hampton High School.