Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered that placing magnetic films on atomically thin molybdenum ...

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum ...

Innate immune sensors—known as pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)—detect specific molecular components of bacterial or ...

The tall black-and-white residents of Antarctica, who waddle around its icy landscape, are in peril thanks to the rapidly ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...

When it comes to research on habitats for pollinating insects, villages have so far received relatively little attention. The ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has engineered a microbial strain capable of rapidly growing in high concentrations of methanol, marking a significant step forward in biorefinery technology.