Out of this world: the art installation features accurate topographic data of the Moon. (Courtesy: National Maritime Museum) A spectacular new lunar art installation has been installed at the Royal ...

The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power. It involves getting a better understanding of how to control fusion in a tokamak-style reactor using the currently under construction ...

In a new discovery, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found that something in the direction of a magnetic field can influence how molecules ...

For millions of years, eastern Africa has been slowly tearing itself apart. The process (called rifting) has left behind deep valleys, volcanoes and lakes that trace one of the planet’s great ...

FUSION IS THE ENGINE OF THE UNIVERSE. The smallest microbe to the most complex life found on alien worlds exist because of the cataclysmic physics happening at the heart of every star. Every pinprick ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a chemical fingerprint inside water molecules to determine where plants get their moisture. The method shaped our understanding of drought resilience, ...

A nuclear escalation in the Middle East would trigger a global catastrophe. Know the physics behind nuclear weapons, and the looming threat of a worldwide nuclear winter. As Middle East tensions rise ...

In South Africa, a strategy 6 years in the making to protect rhinos from poaching, as ingenious as it is dramatic, is now being implemented on the ground in the country’s game reserves and parks.

Scientists are optimistic about finding microbial life in the next 10–20 years, using new tools to detect biosignatures on Mars, icy moons, and exoplanets. Despite intriguing clues, no confirmed ...

Hailstones causes billions in damage in the U.S. alone, but meteorologists know little about how they form. A study using isotope analysis successfully recreated the “history” of 27 hailstones as they ...

The first chapter of Earth’s formation moved quickly. New research shows that our planet locked in its basic chemical makeup within about three million years of the Solar System’s birth. That type of ...