In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste ...

The red pigments in some fall leaves have proven to be a puzzle for researchers who debate why leaves bother to go red.

First published in 1869, Nature is the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest ...

It turns out that your annoying friend who insists on closing all of the window blinds and covering all of the glowing ...

While some practices remain controversial or speculative, biohackers are united by a shared curiosity: how can we engineer ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

A pod of orcas has twice been observed flipping young great white sharks on their backsides to stun them, then slicing their ...

The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face ...

Experts with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago analyze the risks, both as they’re depicted in the movie and in ...

New photography book encourages us to look for science everywhere.

A weather expert and sports fan takes a look at the "science" behind the tradition of storming the field and why it seems to ...