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

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 ...

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

A research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has clarified the structure ...

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

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

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

Ice cream comes in many different flavors. But even pure ice, which consists only of water molecules, has been discovered to ...

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

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age ...

Ferroic materials such as ferromagnets and ferroelectrics underpin modern data storage, yet face limits: They switch slowly, ...