Science Discoveries

JAXA’s MMX mission aims to return soil from Phobos to determine if the Martian moons formed from a…

LONDON, September 17 — The history of computing spans nearly two centuries, from mechanical calculators to the microprocessors…

HEFEI, September 15 — China’s national quantum laboratory in Hefei anchors one of the largest state-backed quantum research…

HONOLULU, September 13 — The economic case for mapping the deep Pacific rests on a simple constraint: ship…

What the Ring of Fire Really Is The term Ring of Fire describes a horseshoe‑shaped zone of volcanoes…

When several Indonesian volcanoes erupt in the same week, the phrase that inevitably surfaces is “the Ring of…

Dark Skies Face New Threat from Satellites By nightfall, the sky over Grand Teton National Park shimmered with…

GENEVA, August 14 — The universe should not exist—at least, not as we know it. That is the…

GENEVA, August 14 — The shift is unmistakable: the Large Hadron Collider is pushing deeper into the origin…

MANILA, August 6 — Scientists have achieved a notable breakthrough by successfully genetically engineering lettuce and tobacco plants…

SAN FRANCISCO, August 6 — The field of plant genetic engineering has achieved a significant milestone with the…

LEEDS, August 5 — The story of sand, that unassuming granular material, is inextricably linked to the history…

BEIJING, Aug 5 — Global consumption of sand and gravel has reached an estimated 50 billion tons a…

PARIS, Aug. 5 — The shift is clear: GDP is no longer the only number that matters. A…

GENEVA, Aug. 5 — The record shows a four-year survey that tracked the same populations from 2018 through…

LONDON, Aug 5 — A cross-cultural well-being study with a $12 million budget and a four-year timetable is…

GENEVA, August 5 — A groundbreaking new study, leveraging advanced data analytics and machine learning, has strategically reoriented…

HEFEI, Aug 4 — A team of physicists has pushed quantum entanglement across 420 kilometers of optical fiber,…