As the authors highlight, the failure rates of these methods vary widely, from two to 23 in every 100 women in the first year ...

Those events are akin to throwing a pebble in a pond, but there are vibrations all the time. Some of them might end up making the Gravitational Wave Background, but the effect of small deformations on ...

At the center of almost every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. Well, astronomers think it’s every galaxy, but it ...

N early 162 years ago, a visionary predicted the evolution of machines and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) with ...

A ustralia might be home to a large proportion of the world’s deadliest animals but it's about to have three more. The iconic Sydney funnel-web spider, with one of the world’s deadliest bites, has ...

A fter centuries of rumor and speculation, archaeologists have finally confirmed the existence of a colossal underground ...

Karlstrom, Grant, and co-authors note that when magma erupts in dry conditions it usually turns to lava at the surface.

B. vaderi is part of the genus of giant isopods called Bathynomus, a group that can reach over 30 centimeters in length and ...

Though a strange result, it's not entirely out of the realms of possibility. Some animals, generally smaller than cows and deer, have been shown to have magnetoreception, or the ability to perceive ...

There’s another form of fossil evidence that has taught us about dinosaur sex: soft tissue fossils of their genitalia. Or, to be specific, really just one so far: a remarkable fossil Psittacosaurus ...

D elicately detailed tattoos have been discovered etched onto the bodies of 1,200-year-old mummies uncovered in Peru.

Due to the large number of positively charged protons within a gold nucleus, negatively charged electrons on the innermost shells are pulled in closer to the nucleus, more than they are in silver.