On a spring morning, a search for a specific species of fern leads to a discussion on ancient plant history, vascular beauty ...

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be ...

India turns to AI for weather forecasting, aiming to improve accuracy and timeliness in predicting extreme weather events.

If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: ...

In a new study published on April 3 in Nature, researchers added over a dozen states to the growing quantum zoo. "Some of these states have never been seen before," said lead author Xiaoyang Zhu, ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a sophisticated 3D photonic-crystal cavity that can trap and control light in ...

VESTAL, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Binghamton University students kicked off their third annual “EcoBlitz” over the weekend. EcoBlitz is a citizen science project that uses the app “iNaturalist.” The app takes in ...

The likelihood of two human fingerprints being identical is extremely low—about 1 in 640 billion. Even identical twins, despite sharing the same genetic information, have unique fingerprints. A new ...

Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps ...

Screen reading encourages rapid pattern-making, associating this idea ... A screen can reveal the inner nature of things. Waving the camera eye of a smartphone over the bar code of a manufactured ...

Welcome to the delightfully macabre world of Rest In Pieces, Richmond’s premier oddity shop where the strange, unusual, and ...