Early explorers wondered why two neighboring islands, separated by something called the “Wallace Line,” had such different wildlife. They saw tigers and elephants on one side, while marsupials lived ...

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Saturday, March 29, at 6: ...

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...

Abstract: The multiple-conductor structure of the medium-voltage direct current (MVDC) cable results in complex electromagnetic couplings, posing great challenges to analyze variation laws of ...

State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China Fujian Science & Technology ...

A new study has revealed that two continent-sized regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption that they are ...

Like any substance, neutron stars have an equation of state, or more precisely a phase diagram, such as that for water.

A large "planet-killer" asteroid is expected to pass close to Earth's orbit, but it poses no threat. Asteroid 436774 (2012 KY3), also known as 2012 KY3, will pass Earth on April 13 at a distance of ...