Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density ...

A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...

A new study revisits a century-old question about how turbulence starts. The findings could potentially influence not only aircraft engineering but even the design of mechanical heart valves, and ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Safety regulations are a major concern for automakers, as poor crash-test results can affect a model’s reputation and even ...

The planet orbits a small red dwarf star around 35 light years from Earth and is five billion years old ...

An extensive computational study by researchers from Finland's University of Jyväskylä predicts that gold nanoclusters could selectively recognize chiral biomolecules. This property may help in ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke for nearly 3 hours on Monday at the GTC keynote. Unsurprisingly, it was all about how the world's biggest company (by market cap) is building the hardware, software and ...

For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma, there have ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

Two popular quantum computing algorithms for problems in chemistry may have very limited use even as quantum hardware ...