Nepal’s first woman chief justice, Sushila Karki, took oath on Friday as the Himalayan nation’s interim prime minister to lead a six-month transition to elections ...

This year the world's first mass-market EV, the Nissan Leaf, celebrates its 15th year on sale, and to celebrate Nissan gave ...

Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and more.

Scientists discovered a method to create element 116 using a titanium beam, paving the way for future synthesis of element ...

To answer a question or ask a new one, email [email protected] Between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of light gases such ...

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia ...

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...