This first-of-its-kind study surveyed the largest known sample of national, elite, and world-class female athletes. A total ...

A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core ...

A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.

Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so revered that poets have been writing about it for more than a millennium, but that love ...

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You might not want to think too much about all the whales that have urinated in the ocean the next time you go to the beach, ...

And ironically, for a question often known as “algebra’s oldest challenge”, it all started with a denial that would have made ...

The team found the molecule porphyrin causes the fur of bandicoots, quolls, and possums to glow bright pink under black light. Meanwhile metabolites of tryptophan produce a blue shade. Sometimes the ...

I n a world first, Chinese scientists have been able to find a satellite using an infrared laser during the daytime. The ...

We could be saying goodbye to long-planned space missions, new weather satellites, and crucial life-saving treatments.

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...