Researchers suspect that ancient male frogs pushed females underwater while trying to mount them. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)It was a cold case with hundreds of victims. For deca… [+5348 chars]
Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete pr… [+5495 chars]
In 1850, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, a mathematician when he wasnt fulfilling his main responsibility as a vicar in the Church of England, described his schoolgirl problem: Fifteen young ladies in a sc… [+6711 chars]
At a dig site in China, a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences working with a colleague from the Netherlands has uncovered the earliest known example of brood care in an insect. In … [+2429 chars]
The James Web Space Telescope team is fresh off the exciting reveal of the telescope’s first full-color photographs, but those images aren’t the only ones the observatory has captured. Hidden in its … [+3032 chars]
Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete pr… [+5495 chars]
New findings show that Earth-size planets may be even less likely to survive the violent conditions at the end of some stars' lives than previously believed. This means that the first exoplanet disco… [+4960 chars]
Look southeast Friday night to catch the moon commencing its monthly tour with a brief visit to Saturn! At approximately 11 p.m. local time on July 15, the waning gibbous moon will shine about a pa… [+2207 chars]
Right across the planet, stargazers are in for a treat because for the next few nights, the years biggest and brightest supermoon will light up the sky. Supermoons are bigger and brighter than regu… [+671 chars]
There are 13 observatories on Maunakea, including the Gemini North telescope (right) and the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (left).Credit: David Nunuk/Science Photo Library The state of Hawaii has s… [+5368 chars]
The high heat and low water conditions produced by global warming weaken pine trees' resistance to disease by hindering their ability to mount an effective defense at the same time that pathogenic fu… [+5428 chars]
Artists impression of the common-envelope evolution in a binary system J 1920. Credit: Jingchuan Yu Chinese and Australian Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Binary Common Envelope Evolution A te… [+2251 chars]
