Researchers have found the halogen levels in the meteorites that formed the Earth billions of…
A compound found in seaweed could protect human skin from the damaging impact of the…
Taking a picture of an exoplanet—a planet in a solar system beyond our sun—is no…
EPFL researchers have teamed up with startup Xsensio to develop a tiny, fully portable system…
The pterosaur record is generally poor, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer. Only a handful…
New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed that a…
A newly published study details microbial life on a sand grain: from bulk sediment to…
Biochemical ‘action shots’ with SLAC’s X-ray laser could help scientists develop synthetic enzymes for medicine…
Engineers from MIT have developed a 3D printing technique that uses a new kind of…
Steak or ice cream? To make the choice, the brain assigns a value to each…
University of Bristol research has revealed how cells rebuild their nucleus and organize their genome…
New research shows that Jupiter’s moon Europa could have subduction zones, which could supply chemical…
How a material breaks may be the most important property to consider when designing layered…
The dust that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko emits into space consists of about one-half of organic molecules.…
These images were taken by ESO’s SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch) instrument, installed on ESO’s…
“Two-dimensional materials” — materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick —…
The Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since…
A new study from MIT provides evidence for an alternative timekeeping system that relies on…