One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

Some industrial processes used to create useful chemicals require heat, but heating methods are often inefficient, partly ...

Michigan State University scientists have pinpointed the molecular "switch" that supercharges sperm for their final sprint to ...

The timing of emissions reductions, even more so than the rate of reduction, will be key to avoiding catastrophic thresholds ...

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...

Hippos, today restricted to sub-Saharan Africa, survived in central Europe far longer than previously assumed. Analyses of ...

Research led by Vladimír Sládek sheds new light on how bones age, questioning long-standing assumptions that sedentary ...

Light is fast, but travels in long wavelengths and interacts weakly with itself. The particles that make up matter are tiny ...

One of the key steps in developing new materials is property identification, which has long relied on massive amounts of ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...

A research team led by Prof. Lin Yiheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with ...

Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. But for how long? The ...