HONG KONG : Heatwaves deep in oceans may be "significantly under-reported", highlighting an area of marine warming that has been largely overlooked, a joint study by Australia's national science agency (CISRO) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found. The study, which was published on Thursday in the

NASA pilots detailed how they help researchers find the right fit for experiments that might not advance without proving that they work in flight as they do

University of Queensland researchers have uncovered the workings of ant venom by measuring electric currents through individual channels in cells to understand how it causes pain.

Researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have taken a major step forward in using quantum mechanics to enhance sensing devices, a new advancement that could be used in ...

Encircling Earth are the Van Allen radiation belts—vast, doughnut-shaped rings of highly energetic charged particles, mostly originating from the sun, that are trapped by our planet's magnetic field, ...

While marine heat waves (MHWs) have been studied at the sea surface for more than a decade, new research published today in Nature has found 80% of MHWs below 100 meters are independent of surface events, ...

A new study has revealed that islands are home to around one in three of the world's plant species, despite covering just over 5% of the Earth's land surface.

Among its other notable achievements and puzzles, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found a larger number of bright galaxies in the distant universe than was expected. While scientists are still ...