For decades, science has understood the basics of photosynthesis, the process by which plants turn sunlight into food.

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More than one million sources of energy are featured in the first X-ray images from the eROSITA space telescope. By Laura Baisas Published Feb 5, 2024 12:00 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

A new catalogue of the visible Milky Way is the most detailed yet, charting 219 million distinct stars in the region we can see from Earth. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with its interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe,” that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the ...

Nuclear fusion reactors are complex machines that aim to bottle the energy-producing power of stars. To do this, nuclear scientists need a nuanced understanding of plasma physics that classical ...

Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps; that's because almost 95% of its land mass is submerged thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean. Zealandia — or Te Riu ...