DNA sits in sunlight every day, absorbing ultraviolet radiation that can set off the kind of chemical changes linked to ...

Picture a planet hurtling through interstellar space with no star to warm it, flung from its birthplace by a gravitational ...

Cosmic rays seen at Earth show a wide range of particle energies, from 107 electron-volts (eV) to more than 1020 eV, the latter being about the same as the kinetic energy of a 450 gram football ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

DNA constantly absorbs UV light from the Sun, which can potentially trigger harmful chemical reactions. However, DNA is ...

Researchers are exploring the use of radioactive waste to create ultra-long-life micro-nuclear batteries for specialized devices. These batteries, unlike consumer electronics power sources, harness ...

India’s geothermal energy potential remains underexplored, but estimates suggest significant long-term possibilities. Potential geothermal power generation capacity of around 10 GW or more.

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating ...

New details of how DNA protects itself from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation show a hidden network of ultrafast molecular ...

A proposed Eunice plant could supply vital isotopes used in 40,000 daily medical procedures, using tech from Sandia National Labs.

Dyson sphere stability — once considered an impossible physics problem — may be within reach. A peer-reviewed paper in ...