Just as lotus leaves inspire water-repellent coatings and spider silk inspires ultra-strong fibers, eggshells may one day ...

Unlike sunlight or lightning, which affect the whole planet, auroral activity is confined to specific areas. As a result, ...

DNA of the ancient virus was extracted from millennium old sheepskin Bible parchment, now in the collections of the ...

Most experiments hunt for particles around the size of atoms, but some theories suggest dark matter could be far heavier, so massive that a single particle might rival the weight ...

The bright points are radio-emitting galaxies and other compact sources, whose emission is much stronger than the faint ...

A team led by Brandon Boor at Purdue University has shown that fragrance compounds in cleaning products, whether conventional ...

Although controlled experiments offer promise for improving weather forecasts, progress in real-world applications has been ...

Venus is unique among the inner planets. Earth has the Moon, Mars has two small satellites, and even Mercury may once have had companions that the Sun’s gravity stripped away. But Venus today is ...

For over ten years, scientists have put forward two different explanations for one of the ocean’s more unusual trends: the increase in squid numbers between 1970 and 2010. A recent modeling study now ...

For nearly sixty years, Einstein’s general relativity has offered a starkly simple picture of black holes: they are defined ...