The geographic location of the Antarctic enables science that is less suitable elsewhere on the planet. An example of this is ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

Auroras occur when energetic particles, often originating from the sun, become trapped in a planet's magnetic field and eventually ... activity on Neptune, for example, in the flyby of NASA's ...

More than 900 students from throughout Florida took part in the 70th Annual State Science and Engineering Fair of Florida, ...

Light is closely integrated with our intellectual, philosophical and scientific discourse. The exact nature of light has remained a mystery since we stepped on earth. Newton postulated the corpuscular ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

D-Wave claims to have beaten a supercomputer with a quantum annealer. For the first time, the problem solved should be useful ...

Inscriptions on clay tablets from that time period show a record of transactions between Mesopotamian and neighboring merchants from Harappa and are among the earliest known examples of an ...

In other words: “Nice try, D-Wave, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” ...

Tiny magnetic "flowers" engineered by physicist Anna Palau are redefining how we manipulate magnetic fields. These ...