Some newly published findings from an Idaho State University professor and his colleagues point out how changes to currents ...

Stepping away from its billions-of-years-old role as a genetic blueprint, DNA is now embarking on a new journey as an active ...

Polarization has always been a core property of light that is essential for a broad range of everyday applications, including ...

Quantum mechanics is extremely successful at describing the behavior of matter at the atomic level. This success forces one ...

A United Nations-backed framework for protecting tropical forests could allow governments to collect income from carbon ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory ...

New research suggests that neutrinos in the early universe may have transformed into a previously unknown form of radiation.

Researchers at IPhT (CEA, CNRS) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have shown that gravity—and with it, ...

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What ...

Take a typical fish out of the water and it won't live long. It gets the oxygen it needs from the water it swims in. In a ...

Control of heat transport in nanostructures is of central importance for numerous modern technologies—from high-performance ...

A team of researchers has identified atomic distortions that may be linked with high-temperature superconductivity in a ...