In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Himalayas, most people farm for a living. In the 1980s, they largely transitioned from subsistence-based to market-oriented ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 caused widespread damage and over 3,800 fatalities, and also ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing ...

Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by ...

We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police ...

Nature often puts on incredible displays. A recent example caught on camera shows thousands of bumblebee catfish ...

Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...