Himalayas, most people farm for a living. In the 1980s, they largely transitioned from subsistence-based to market-oriented ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 caused widespread damage and over 3,800 fatalities, and also ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing ...

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like sickle ...

We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police ...

Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...