Science Discoveries

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 — Two billion. That is the number of species occurrence records now housed in…

GENEVA, July 21 — The shift is quiet but relentless. Every decade, the world’s most authoritative inventory of…

NOTTINGHAM, July 21 — The term “Luddite” entered the English lexicon during a wave of organised machine-breaking that…

ISLAMABAD, July 21 — The zenithal hourly rate, or ZHR, is a standard astronomical measure that helps scientists…

WASHINGTON, July 20 — The cell door clangs shut, and a citizen sits inside, not for a crime…

WASHINGTON, July 20 — An estimated 83 percent of the world’s population now lives under light-polluted skies. The…

NEW YORK, July 19 — For all the excitement that quantum computing has generated, the machines have remained…

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 — For the first time, physicists have demonstrated quantum coherence at room temperature in…

WASHINGTON, July 19 — When scientists want to know how warm the ocean was during the last ice…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 19 — The stretch of reliable global climate records runs back only to the 1880s.…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 19 — The story begins not with a press conference or a named laureate, but…

LONDON, July 19 — A 2010 paper titled “Radiometric Calibration for AgCam,” published in the journal Remote Sensing…

WASHINGTON, July 19 — A team of physicists has produced the first quantum material that operates at room…

NEW DELHI, July 19 — What can a surgeon who described instruments and procedures two thousand years ago…

NALANDA, India, July 19 — Ancient Indian universities like Nalanda, Vikramshila, and Takshashila were teaching astronomy, mathematics, medicine,…

NEW DELHI, July 19 — When historians look back at the Vedic Age, they see more than just…

ISLAMABAD, July 19 — The Indus Valley Civilisation, which flourished from 3300 to 1300 BCE, is increasingly drawing…

TEHRAN, July 18 — Lettuce, the crisp leaf vegetable that appears daily in salads and sandwiches around the…

OTTAWA, July 18 — The smoke hangs low over the boreal forest, a vast sea of coniferous trees…

NORMAN, Okla., July 17 — A communication theory developed at the University of Oklahoma offers a framework for…

BOSTON, July 17 — A 2019 research paper has been retracted after an investigation found duplicated images, a…

STANFORD, Calif., July 17 — For decades, the challenge of keeping aircraft safe has relied on frequent, painstaking…

MONROVIA, July 17 — Liberian President Joseph Boakai officially commissioned a state-of-the-art Elemental Analyzer at the Environmental Protection…