Researchers have developed a novel class of nanotube membranes that enable ultrafast ion transport. The findings open new ...

When temperatures rise, sleep often suffers. Hot nights can make it harder to fall asleep, increase waking during the night ...

On the edge of the Mongolian steppe, overlooking where two rivers meet, lies an ancient cemetery. Buried within are two ...

Genes are not passed on exclusively from parents to their offspring. Some are mobile and can also jump to other species, as researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen ...

Scientists predict that the next three to five decades provide a critical window to anticipate and plan for Antarctic ice ...

Researchers reported this week a deadly outbreak of plague in Siberia 5,500 years ago, revealing that Yersinia pestis evolved ...

Much of Western Europe was sweltering in a grueling heat wave on Friday, with the mercury expected to continue rising in the ...

Like humans, wildlife is increasingly vulnerable as climate change fuels longer and more intense heat waves, disrupting ...

Proteins are the molecular workhorses of the human body. They perform a vast range of essential functions, from building ...

Land acknowledgments, or statements in which planners, residents or organizations recognize that the land they exist and operate on originally belonged to Indigenous nations, have become increasingly ...

Belgian scientist Francois Englert, a particle physics specialist who won the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his work on the Higgs boson, has died at 93. The Higgs boson is considered by physicists to be the ...

A stunningly concentrated and hefty galaxy cluster, from a time in the universe's history when such massive structures aren't ...