More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole ...

Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, ...

The molecular machinery that normally builds proteins inside cells has now taken on a new role as a "switch." A research team ...

Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

Across a narrow watershed in Asakura, a rural city in Fukuoka Prefecture, centuries-old stone channels still guide water ...

Researchers have traced the journey of a plastic bottle cap recovered near the waters of southern Japan by combining data ...

A research team led by Professor Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in ...

By analyzing data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Dutch astronomers have investigated a young, oxygen-rich supernova ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found ...

They have been our meat and our messengers, a source of fertilizer and a religious symbol: while pigeons are now mostly ...

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered ...