A giant volcano may be sitting in Alaska’s Aleutian chain that dwarfs the nearby Okmok volcano, which has been implicated in the year BCE 43 disruption of the Roman Republic.
The human sperm’s tail whips in a single direction as it swims, but with the head spinning at the same time the sperm avoids moving in circles, researchers from the University of Bristol and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico have discovered.
Scientists at an “earthquake laboratory at CalTech increased the knowledge of the physics of friction that drive thrust-fault earthquakes, often the world’s largest quakes.
By using patient discharge data, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded researchers created a new system for classifying life-threatening complications associated with childbirth in hopes other researches can use what's learned to reduce rising levels of maternal morbidity.
Oceans absorb much of the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, but that may cause fish to be smaller in the future, researchers from the University of Connecticut and other institutions discovered.
Scientists searching for ice in the Moon’s polar craters found evidence that more metal lurks beneath the lunar surface than they expected.
A “sea squirt” living at the bottom of the ocean may help scientists find a cure for melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, researchers at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, said.
As lithium-ion batteries reach their limits for improvements, Stanford researchers looked to new electrolyte design to improve lithium metal battery performance with some success.
Genetic research shows the mix of ideas and material culture, with people intermingling, came before cities began to rise, which is the opposite of previous assumptions.
Scientists at MIT used machine learning to find distinct points enabled them to split the world’s oceans into different “provinces” based on ecological makeup.
Researchers found that infants whose behavior showed inhibition tend to have a reserved, introverted personality at age 26.
Today’s measure of 50-year record high tides will become daily events by 2050 for many coastal dwellers in the United States.
NASA released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a swirling spiral galaxy named NGC 2906.
Jazz guitarists helped researchers show that inexperienced musicians rely on their brain’s right hemisphere, but experienced musicians can improvise almost automatically while primarily using their brain's left hemisphere.