The air around us may be carrying vastly more microscopic plastic than scientists ever realized. Over the last 20 years, scientists…

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum information storage…

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter. Detected with Hubble,…

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic…

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping…

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing others,…

Rutgers University marine scientists are using New Jersey-developed tools to measure how iron shortages in Southern Ocean phytoplankton reduce photosynthetic efficiency…

Researchers investigating Nipah-like illnesses in Bangladesh have uncovered evidence of another bat-borne virus circulating in humans. Researchers studying infectious diseases have…