A new study may contain the first tantalizing hints ... Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech and climate change.

A study trumpeting the value of applying rigorous standards to scientific research was retracted, in part because the authors didn’t follow their own advice. In the sprawling project ...

In a new NASA-funded study in the journal Science Advances, scientists created simulations to explore how turbulence interacts with the density of the cloud. Lumps, or pockets of density, are the ...

A new study says it was kicked off for the most part by volcanic winter. 201.6 million years ago, one of the Earth's five great mass extinctions took place, when three-quarters of all living ...

generating the data that artificial intelligence systems can analyze to guide further experimentation." The researchers defined five levels of laboratory automation to illustrate how automation can ...

ESKE WILLERSLEV was an unusual witness for a murder trial. An expert in ancient DNA (aDNA) at the University of Copenhagen, his day job involved studying the lives of prehistoric peoples and ...