Only Hubble’s sharpness can unveil the intricate details that hint at the processes shaping this enigmatic structure.

Ashwagandha’s story is being rewritten in the language of modern science. According to the NIH, its benefits include easing ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

In a mouse model of acne, the microneedle patches loaded with drugs significantly reduced swelling, bacterial levels, and inflammatory signals, while boosting anti-inflammatory activity. Tissue ...

Cross sections of C3 rice (left) and C4 sorghum (right) shoots. Both grain crops evolved from a common ancestor, but sorghum evolved to photosynthesize more efficiently. Credit: Tina Schreier at the ...

A nuclear transition such as that in thorium-229 will be much less disturbed in the solid state, and its clock transition will be mostly preserved even in a crystal environment. The solid-state ...

In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

The sicky theory of life’s origins.

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still feel familiar. For decades, astronomers ...

When ice freezes and thaws repeatedly, chemical reactions are fuelled that can have significant impact on ecosystems. The photo was taken in Stordalen, Abisko. ImageJean-François Boily Ice can trigger ...

A team of scientists led by Washington State University scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch has identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that have characteristics of potential “superhabitable” ...

Quantum information plays a vital role in connecting several branches of physics. Specifically, the theory of quantum error correction, which explains how to protect ...