One afternoon on the coast of Hokkaido, a small rubber duck bobbed in the waves, anchored to a seaside rock. It wasn’t ...

The UK government is putting the onus on citizens to fix a problem driven by decades of systemic neglect. The real culprits ...

Mutatation causes immunity to all viruses and researchers now want to build a treatment from it.

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...

The marriage of cutting-edge technology with traditional pastimes often stirs excitement -- but "drone fishing" was not on ...

The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an ...

Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

The encoded poem is called “Orpheus,” opening with the line “Any style/of life is prim.” When triggered, the microbe ...

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...