Two Chinese scientists were named leaders of the UNESCO Chair for Mountain Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in Beijing ...

T he Star Trek universe’s panel at the New York Comic Con has come and gone, but Trekkies were treated to the official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy before all was sa ...

A Western Reserve Academy teacher, who had taught science for about a year at the Hudson boarding school, was terminated from his job after he was named as one of 135 people arrested in a statewide ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s ...

The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The development is more pronounced ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will reduce its operating hours from five days a week to weekend hours only, starting this week. Beginning Oct. 1, the science institution will ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Thursday from Central Florida. The rocket launched at 4:36 a.m.

AFTER THE second world war, Leo Szilard, a pioneering nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, decided to move into biology instead: life; not death. But there was a problem. As a ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can turn lunar minerals into haematite, also known as rust. The discovery adds to ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that form in completely opposing chemical environments—a combination so unusual ...

An experiment that transformed lead into gold, a satellite designed to manufacture drugs in space, and many other fascinating projects all took home trophies at this year’s Science Fair. reading time ...