This insight may also help researchers better understand how other organs develop and could eventually inspire new medical ...

This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in ...

But new research shows the lungs don’t follow that rule. A study in Nature Communications reveals that certain lung cells are ...

Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Long before the infamous Black Death swept through medieval Europe, killing a third of its population, another strain of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, haunted humanity. This earlier strain ...

Scientists develop fluorescent dye-loaded nanosized, irregularly-shaped microplastics to track their movement in real time.

Artist’s illustration of the interplay of a vibrational mode in electron-transfer processes Credit Credit: Pratyush Ghosh The ...

One major challenge has been the shape of the laser beam itself. Researchers at the University of Basel have recently shown ...

Traditional weight‑loss methods often don’t deliver lasting results, so researchers are searching for new answers. One ...

Saturn’s system is mainly shaped by Titan, its largest moon, which is moving outward rapidly due to tidal forces within Saturn. A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests that ...

Their findings suggest that these tiny creatures might help us understand both how to grow food on the Red Planet and how to guard against contamination from Earth. Researchers exposed two tardigrade ...