When a singer belts out a tune while a guitar player strums along, sound waves travel through the air, driving collective oscillations of the molecules within. Meanwhile, at the quantum level, ...

A new international review has shed light on how offshore energy structures—from oil and gas platforms to wind turbines—shape marine ecosystems and the benefits they provide to society. The paper, ...

The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any ...

Baby boomers have broken many taboos and transformed social norms, particularly around sexuality. As this generation grows older, is society's view of older adults' sexuality changing? Research ...

Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic ...

What if some of the most important clues about marine biodiversity were already collected but never fully shared? That's the ...

Transposons, DNA sequences that can self-replicate and move (jump) throughout the genome, are widespread and can affect cell ...

A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) separation is central to technologies ranging from natural gas purification to hydrogen production and ...

Increasingly, the world's oceans are telling us our climate system may be changing faster and more dramatically than expected ...

Britain broke its record on Monday for the hottest day in May, according to the national weather agency, with the mercury rising to 33.5C near London as the country baked in a sweltering heat wave.

Temperatures hit record highs for May in the United Kingdom and France on Monday, as forecasters warned of a prolonged period ...