A new study explains why people still search for Bigfoot. It shows how simple tools, patience, and curiosity keep the mystery ...

Fresh evidence of volcanic activity on Mars is reshaping how scientists think about the planet’s potential to host life, past ...

Anurag Acharya’s problem was that the Google search bar is very smart, but also kind of dumb. As a Googler working on search 13 years ago, Acharya wanted to make search results encompass scholarly ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

As scientific datasets increase in both size and complexity, the ability to label, filter and search this deluge of information has become a laborious, time-consuming and sometimes impossible task, ...

New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Figuring out ...

A new idea for detecting dark matter really sparkles. Diamonds could be used to search for the mysterious substance, a team of scientists suggests. Detectors containing the crystals could spot ...

When people think of the Antarctic, they tend to think of a frozen, white barren wasteland, not an ideal nesting ground for a ...

Larry Mantle talks with the authors of the first book ever written that examines the science of Web page rankings. Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you ...