Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum ...

Scientists have theorized that dark matter clumps exist in staggering numbers, far more than the galaxies we see. Only clumps ...

By 2100, it predicted that if no action is taken to lower our fossil fuel use (a scenario called RCP8.5 by the UN’s ...

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You probably use science words every day without thinking twice about them. Someone might tell you they have a theory about ...

The intermittent nature of solar energy poses challenges to grid stability, making accurate ultra-short-term solar irradiance ...

Scientists have developed a new approach to correcting common quantum computing errors, which could pave the way for more ...

A 500 Internal Server Error is a generic warning that the server faced an unexpected problem it couldn't specifically identify. During this Cloudflare outage, it ...

A microscopic structure in mammalian egg cells called a meiotic spindle has one crucial job—and during egg maturation, it has only a few hours to do it properly. What happens in those few hours has ...

We tend to explain the world by pointing to what things are, not what they’re interacting with. A new analysis argues that this bias has repeatedly steered science down blind alleys. The pattern shows ...

80+ climate scientists released a rebuttal to DOE’s “critical review” of greenhouse gases released earlier this summer, calling it riddled with errors. (Axios) Why it matters: DOE’s report, authored ...