Editorial Team

The longevity of Earth’s continents in the face of destructive tectonic activity is an essential geologic backdrop for the emergence of life on our...

Using an innovative technique that uses the ‘hum’ - or seismic noise - of waves crashing at the coastline of Campi Flegrei, scientists have...

How do you observe a process that takes more than one trillion times longer than the age of the universe? The XENON Collaboration research...

Theory predicts the isotope’s radioactive decay has a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe “by many orders of magnitude,” but no evidence...

NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake." The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic...

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center found that “speed bumps” in space, which can slow down satellites orbiting closer to...

One natural substance scientists have looked to in creating synthetic materials is nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl. An exceptionally tough, stiff material produced by...

Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of...

Cognitive impairment associated with cancer, also known as “chemobrain”, has gained recognition as a complication of the disease and its treatment, as it can...

An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle has now tackled a new category of...

Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the...

As a baby listens to her parents talk, her brain somehow sorts the sounds into specific sound categories. This happens even though mom and...