Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, ...
Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...
The molecular machinery that normally builds proteins inside cells has now taken on a new role as a "switch." A research team ...
Across a narrow watershed in Asakura, a rural city in Fukuoka Prefecture, centuries-old stone channels still guide water ...
A research team led by Professor Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in ...
Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...
The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found ...
By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...
Researchers have traced the journey of a plastic bottle cap recovered near the waters of southern Japan by combining data ...
This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered ...
If we want to dismiss something as irrelevant, we'd say that it's "as boring as watching the grass grow." And yet ...
They have been our meat and our messengers, a source of fertilizer and a religious symbol: while pigeons are now mostly ...