This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA's James ...

A research team at the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Darmstadt has shown for the first time that atoms that are ...

The same amount of rain falling on the same landscape at different times can send very different amounts of water into its ...

Across parts of the internet where young men trade tips on self-improvement, the latest project is scent. Deodorant is out, ...

Shorebirds are capable of some of the longest migrations on Earth, yet most return year after year to the same area to breed.

Helicobacter pylori bacteria infect around half the global population and are a leading cause of stomach ulcers and gastric ...

Scientists have found how a protein produced by bacteria disrupts the mechanism that controls flower development in plants, ...

When two popular science magazines—out of about 17 in circulation—ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, ...

Xufeng Zhang is using magnets to make computers more power efficient at the quantum level. The Northeastern professor of ...

Climate change is increasing the frequency of both droughts and floods, meaning back-to-back extreme events are also on the ...

Inside each human cell, about 2 meters (6.6 feet) of genomic DNA must be accurately copied and equally transmitted to two ...

Microorganisms can do remarkable things—for example, nitrogen fixation, the conversion of nitrogen gas (N₂) into a form that ...