"It was like this science fiction movie," said Christian Richard, a Louisiana rice farmer who described the small whirlpool ...

Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our ...

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny insects, named for their frog-shaped bodies and powerful jumping legs, are so ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

The brevity with which her star burned brightest and how memorable she was in "Weird Science" left people wondering why Kelly ...

A newly mapped form of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride emerges only under extremely strong magnetic fields, defying long-held expectations about how superconductors behave.

Strange dinosaur species found with hundreds of stones in its throat named after funk band - Species named after techno-funk duo Chromeo could be key to understanding how a small group of dinosaurs su ...

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

Andy Weir’s novels, and the films they spawn, have been praised for their scientific accuracy – but not by everyone. Which is ...

Thanks to the alternating single-double nature of the bonds, electrons in these orbitals end up delocalized; the differences between the bonds become a bit irrelevant, and the molecule is best viewed ...

In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, astronauts land on a planet orbiting close to a black hole. They spend a few hours on its surface. When they retu.

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an ...