New research into Chinese surnames has revealed the impacts of historical migrations on the current population structure in China.

In this video, a NASA astronaut makes water shift shapes using the power of sound waves onboard the International Space Station (ISS) about 250 miles (400 km) above the Earth.

Conservation photographer Ian Shive has teamed up with Daily Interactive Networks, developers of the magazine app for National Geographic, to release an iPad app for touring [...]

Researchers have developed a fabric coating that can make dirt and grime slough off.

At Yosemite National Park in California, a small population of huge trees—constituting just one percent of all trees in the area—accounts for almost half of its biomass.

Gasification of trash, specifically, plastic, paper, and rubber, may be useful in dealing with the enormous amount of trash this country produces per year, yet, as with [...]

Contrary to popular theory, the giant magnetic bubble around our sun probably does not create a shock wave as it travels through space, according to new observations from NASA.

Ninth-century hieroglyphs painted by a Mayan scribe in Guatemala are records of lunar and perhaps planetary cycles, forming the oldest known Mayan calendar.

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has snapped this new picture of Messier 55, which contains some of our [...]

The most traditional way to re-engineer proteins is to change their composition by making mutations, which will alter the amino acid building block sequence.