Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

When waves are moving across ice-covered seas, they can cause sheets of ice to bend and ultimately break. Understanding the processes underlying these wave-induced ice fractures and predicting when ...

Although DNA is tightly packed and protected within the cell nucleus, it is constantly threatened by damage from normal ...

Are taxes too high? According to a new study by University of Cincinnati economics professor David Brasington, the answer is ...

Researchers led by Yasunori Ichihashi at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan recently examined ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin ...

The precise control of tiny droplets on surfaces is essential for advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and ...

King cobras are the world's longest venomous snakes. So, imagine seeing one a few feet away as you embark on a train in India. The Western Ghats King Cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga)—a vulnerable king ...

Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

Argonne National Laboratory has made extremely precise measurements of unstable ruthenium nuclei. The measurements are a ...