The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters

Researchers have written the quantum state of single photons, i.e. particles of light, into a rubidium atom and read it out again after a certain storage time

Scientists have engineered a cheap, abundant alternative to the expensive platinum catalyst and coupled it with a light-absorbing electrode to make hydrogen fuel from sunlight and water

For many practical applications involving lasers, it's important to be able to control the direction of the laser beams. Researchers have come up with a very energy-efficient way of steering laser beams that is precise and relatively inexpensive

For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw

Scars on the jaw of a 120-million-year-old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans

Intel Corporation has announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of modern electronics

The world's first interactive paper computer is set to revolutionize the world of interactive computing

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected the crossing of a solid planet in front of a star located at only 42 light-years in the constellation Cancer.

A team of researchers at MIT has found a way to manipulate both the thermal conductivity and the electrical conductivity of materials simply by changing the external conditions