The QROCODILE experiment, built around superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), can detect dark matter to ...

Rope-heavy fishing traps are a deadly hazard for North Atlantic right whales. There are safer options. Why haven’t they caught on more widely?

How can bright glowing orbs appear on lonely roads or empty fields with no lamps around? This video explores the strange phenomenon known as “ghost lights,” seen from Texas to Japan. Scientists ...

When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Wang Yifang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences which collaborated with 700 physicists worldwide, told The Times: “We are ...