As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...

A decade-old video game is now going viral for seemingly predicting the future. As tensions escalate between the United ...

Instant Scholar' is a Times of India initiative to make academic research accessible to a wider audience. If you are a Ph.D.

Whether it's for your vehicle or your home, from small-scale uses to the largest, the debate over the most efficient and cost ...

The National Institutes of Health advises the upper limit for daily intake of selenium – from all sources – is 400 micrograms ...

A team of Rice University researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

In their new book, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen survey flat Earth theory, fake moon landings and other scientific myths and why people believe them.

Quarks are the reason protons have a positive charge. Each quark has a fraction of an electric charge. A proton has two up ...

Ryan Amberger is headed to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he will spend the next year studying nuclear astrophysics — specifically, the process behind the creation of half of the elements ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

A key piece of NASA’s lunar future has landed in the U.S. – the HALO module, destined for the Moon’s orbit as part of Gateway ...