A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a ...

An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds.

Melatonin is the famous hormone, that also comes in the form of supplements, to improve sleep. However, it has now been found ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Nigersaurus is famous for having an astonishing number of teeth, arranged in a way that seems almost engineered for constant ...

The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

The Doomsday Clock was developed by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to warn about dangerous technologies and risks in the ...

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

For more than a century, the largest dinosaurs have seemed like a closed club dominated by a few famous sauropods with necks as long as city buses. Now a neglected set of bones is forcing ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It ...

Cannibalistic jellyfish have taken over Venice ...