A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...

Using a powerful mathematical tool, scientists have unveiled the intricate "ringing" of black holes, unlocking patterns missed for decades and laying the groundwork for sharper gravitational wave ...

At the edge of two exotic materials, scientists have discovered a new state of matter called a "quantum liquid crystal" that ...

A tiny 3 kg detector has made a huge leap in neutrino science by detecting rare CEvNS interactions at a Swiss reactor. This elusive effect, long predicted and hard to measure, was captured with ...

Ape behavior just got a name upgrade — “scrumping” — and it might help explain why humans can handle alcohol so well.

Women who drank heavily, even though they strongly wished to avoid pregnancy, were 50% more likely to become pregnant than ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest direct evidence of betel nut chewing in Southeast Asia by analyzing 4,000-year-old ...