Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

The Sun has just unleashed an M5-class solar flare, a powerful burst of radiation that signals a clear uptick in solar activity as the current cycle heads toward its peak. While this event is not the ...

Your smoke alarm’s chirp can be oddly reassuring, a small sound that suggests everything is still working. Yet the device ...

From the scale of danger posed by wind turbines to the actual price of installing home solar panels, here are the facts you ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

After 10 years of battling objections from foreign nuclear suppliers, the government has brought in a new bill - It’s called SHANTI for short - The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Findings based on mini “lab quakes” in a controlled setting could help researchers assess the likelihood of future quakes in ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Advanced quantum detectors designed at Texas A&M University are reinventing the search for dark matter, an unseen force that ...