Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

After a slight delay, Australia and Papua New Guinea formally signed a defense treaty this week committing the two nations to ...

A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...

The chemistry Nobel was awarded on Wednesday to three scientists who discovered a revolutionary way of making materials full ...

For years we've been warned that technological advances and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to sweep people out of work.

Long before plants and algae, cyanobacteria were already performing photosynthesis—filling Earth's skies with oxygen and ...

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool can help researchers determine how well an enzyme fits with a desired target, ...

A tree can sequester quite a bit of carbon, and forests can sequester and store quite a bit more, but knowing exactly how ...

A new study from The University of Texas at El Paso has uncovered how financial incentives may subtly shape officiating ...

Stress granules are droplet-like protein hubs that temporarily shield fragile RNA from cellular stresses such as toxins. VCP ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new ...

Microplastics are the crumbs of our plastic world, tiny pieces that come from bigger items breaking apart or from products ...