Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

In physics, the mesoscale lies between the microscopic and the macroscopic. It is not just the domain of tiny living ...

Researchers in the US have demonstrated how quantum entanglement could be used to detect optical signals from astronomical ...

The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to ...

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

A Purdue University contraceptive vaccine seeks to address animal overpopulation by markedly reducing fertility in feral ...

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that a material's superconductivity can be altered by coupling it to an in-built, light-confining cavity. In experiments published in Nature, a team ...

Local recreation areas play an important role in reducing stress. In two new publications, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL show how visual ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is one of the most important processes in our cells to ensure that no faulty or incomplete proteins are produced. Scientists have now identified a central mechanism ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

At some point, most people have found themselves holding a tilted carton of milk or bottle of cooking oil, patiently waiting for the last drops to drip out. Now, physicists at Brown University have ...

The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications. Researchers have long assumed that they are distinct phenomena, but ...