November 13, 2024 • Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on ...

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas, through which the magnetic energy is converted into ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

As global warming and climate change persist, the melting of ice in lakes poses severe and misunderstood threats to ...

Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. November 11, 2024 • Have you ever been stuck in traffic and thought, if only ...

However, how current sheets come into being remains unresolved. A research team led by Prof. LU Quanming and Prof. WANG ...

My partner and I have been sleeping on the Pod 4 Cover for two months. Here's what to know about this super cool sleep ...

Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus's impressive capability, and engineering. "The computational model is a useful testbed for ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

Soybean farmers have benefited from decades of checkoff-funded research that’s pushed yields, and now a program is taking ...

Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...