The world's first-ever grid-scale wave energy harvesting device has been installed on a US Naval Base off the coast of Oahu, ...

An international team of researchers has devised a new method of detecting gravitational waves that might be produced by ...

How does marriage equality contribute to countries' economic benefits? A new study suggests there are significant economic ...

Washington DC’s power grid is one among several U.S. cities that are especially vulnerable to threats from space weather ...

New research reveals that U.S. Republicans and Democrats agree on more than they realize. So why do we remain so polarized?

A new study suggests chimpanzees are able to learn human words and exhibit limited speech capabilities, upending previously ...

Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb argues how humanity's belief in its uniqueness hinders the search for extraterrestrial ...

Element 116 has officially been created for the first time using a titanium beam. Will the long-sought element 120 be next?

New evidence suggests cave art on the island of Sulawesi, believed to be the world’s oldest, dates to an astonishing 51,200 ...

Optical sensors that rapidly detect a 'shock train' inside a scramjet engine could revolutionize hypersonic flight.

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn't just performing with high accuracy; new research suggests that it is "thinking" very much ...

Scientists have invented a novel technology that grabs RF signals out of thin air and converts them directly into usable ...