Only Hubble’s sharpness can unveil the intricate details that hint at the processes shaping this enigmatic structure.

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...

A nuclear transition such as that in thorium-229 will be much less disturbed in the solid state, and its clock transition will be mostly preserved even in a crystal environment. The solid-state ...

In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

Ashwagandha’s story is being rewritten in the language of modern science. According to the NIH, its benefits include easing stress, calming anxiety, and improving sleep, but Professor Jing-Ke Weng and ...

In a mouse model of acne, the microneedle patches loaded with drugs significantly reduced swelling, bacterial levels, and inflammatory signals, while boosting anti-inflammatory activity. Tissue ...

Ecosystem reconstruction of the Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry around 150 million years ago in Colorado, the United States. The landscape is dominated by gymnosperm plants such as conifers and ...

Most of us think about weight in terms of clothes, mirrors, or maybe blood sugar and cholesterol. But very few of us connect it to the brain. That might need to change. A new international study led ...

SAR11 bacteria comprise some 40% of marine bacterial cells, making them an essential part of our ocean ecosystems. (Image source: Smithsonian / Xiaowei Zhao.) For decades, SAR11 bacteria, tiny ocean ...

Scientists have developed a new way to boost the performance of perovskite solar cells by precisely controlling the formation of two-dimensional (2D) perovskite phases at critical interfaces.

The superconducting gap sets the basic energy scale that allows electricity to flow without resistance in a superconductor. In high‑temperature cuprates, the paired electrons (Cooper pairs) are mostly ...