A common height that seems normal in our human-scale world. Yet, when we compare it to the smallest and largest conceivable ...

Could reality be made of more dimensions than those we perceive? The question has consumed some of the most brilliant physics ...

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to drive the universe's accelerating expansion, remains one of the deepest puzzles in modern physics. For ...

An international research collaboration with the involvement of the UAB demonstrates for the first time that memristors, electronic devices at the nanoscale,  can easily calibrate electrical ...

Researchers show nanoscale memristors can calibrate electrical resistance without complex labs or extreme conditions, opening ...

From cancer-resistant mole rats to 200-year-old whales, evolution has equipped long-lived species with unique biological ...

Linda Robinson’s career as a foreign correspondent and researcher has taken her through Latin America and the Middle East.

Aging brings about a range of changes—often unwelcome—to our bodies: sagging skin, graying or thinning hair, and a decline in muscle strength and ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

Arctic sea ice is disappearing fast, and scientists have turned to an unexpected cosmic clue—space dust—to uncover how ice has changed over tens of thousands of years. By tracking helium-3–bearing ...