A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are…
To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe — and the extraordinary things that…
Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on degraded organic matter,…
MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a…
The effect of being overweight and obesity on risk of cancer is at least twice…
Thanks to new technology that enables them to create simple tools, robots may be on…
Alterations in the gut microbiota — the microorganisms residing in the gastrointestinal tract — have…
In July 2015, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy was being grilled by lawmakers…
Researchers have conducted a study in which mice voluntarily ate a dough containing THC, the…
Large-scale ‘disturbances’, including fires, harvesting, windstorms, and insect outbreaks, which kill large patches of forest,…
First cells on ancient Earth may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes.…
A new study published this week reveals the first evidence of a direct link between…
In a paper published today scientists have studied the Vela Pulsar, a neutron star in…
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change has only a “minimal influence”…
Though the brain is a very slow machine, its capabilities exceed typical state-of-the-art, ultrafast artificial…
Experiments in quantum physics confirm theoretically predicted deviation. Many phenomena of the natural world evidence…
A group of astronomers, including Penn State scientists, has announced the likely discovery of a…
For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how…