Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...

Two UC Berkeley faculty, a UCLA physicist and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded Breakthrough Foundation prizes ...

Last month marked Women’s History Month, and in February there was International Day of Women and Girls in Science, too. But, ...

Massive octopuses, some as long as 62 feet, once roamed the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs. New fossil discoveries ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...

New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa ...

Paleontologists believe these early cephalopods were ‘huge, intelligent’ creatures that crushed prey with their powerful ...

On 25 April 1953, Watson and Crick published an article, in the acclaimed journal “Nature” titled “Molecular structure of nucleic acids: A structure for deoxyribonucleic acid”. The one-page article ...

With more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: ...

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Roizman reshaped the field of virology through his work on the herpes simplex virus, laying the groundwork for efforts to ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its originally planned five-year mission and mapped more than 47 million galaxies and quasars, and will continue observations into 2028 ...