In the last year or so, several surveys have demonstrated that the public confidence in scientists in the US remains high, despite there being a partisan divide. But what about the rest of the world?

The official title of the "steepest street” is actually quite controversial: the associated Guinness World Record has changed ...

A New Zealand mayor has invited the American ambassador for a history lesson, after US President Donald Trump appeared to ...

Research has demonstrated how some species “rapidly evolve” in response to the sudden change in surroundings caused by ...

In a new study, two researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California San Diego collected seismic data and earthquake records to show there have been small seismic ...

A stronomers have discovered two objects that at first looked like a well-known stage in star formation, but also have ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, ...

“Within eight million years, the ancestors of whales go from being fully terrestrial, such as the four-legged, furry ...

A mong the sweep of executive orders signed by the new US president Donald Trump is the decision to rename Denali as Mount ...

It's a point that people have been quick to raise online. In the first few weeks after conception, all embryos look the same.

Often, star-grazing comets such as C/2024 G3 do not survive the encounter with the Sun, though astronomers believe that this one did so in the past. This comet's period is 135,000 years – long for a ...

A n Australian man who moved abroad has revealed that he only realized that the Moon looks different in the Northern ...