Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays—they produce too many muons at the Earth's surface. Cascades of muons are ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...

Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

A team of bioarchaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Université de ...

A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, ...

There are over 30,000 weather stations in the world, measuring temperature, precipitation and other indicators often on a ...

A small team of astrophysicists at the University of California, Los Angeles, working with colleagues from the University of ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source ...

Flooding triggered by three days of heavy rain has killed one person and displaced thousands in southern Thailand, with more ...

Feces, vomit and fossilized food from inside stomachs have provided new clues into how dinosaurs rose to dominate Earth, a ...