The waters around the zone of floating debris appear greener and bluer on account of high levels of tiny bits of plastic.

How the brain generates movement is not fully understood. This work uses neural network ensembles to infer likely inputs to a brain area from real neural data. In motor cortex of reaching monkeys, ...

A promising biotechnology company developed a new approach that might treat a rare disease — but its sole employee didn’t do ...

Personalities in the animal kingdom can dictate everything from the hunting tactics of spiders to how long chimpanzee mothers ...

The world’s farms depend on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers to increase crop yields, but the production and use of these ...

Lead-based light-emitting materials are widely studied for their light-emission properties. But lead contaminates the ...

One of Saturn’s rings consists of a diverse population of icy and rocky grains, each with a distinct composition. How this came about might now have an explanation.

Zircon crystals found in some of Earth’s oldest rocks suggest that the source rock was once buried about 50 kilometres into ...

Network science has inspired the design of materials that spread out their deformation when a force is applied, have tunable ...

A combination of body and organ-function metrics does better at classifying obesity than does body mass index.

Technology is making biological studies more powerful than ever. But people are the real force behind discovery.

Projections that include severe drought predict that a majority of the 993 cactus species assessed will see large losses of ...