Roots play a crucial role in defending against drought and heat, functioning as a complex machine with various components, represented by different cell types.

A new study published on May 10 in the journal Royal Society Open Science has shown that in the Gila monster, a large venomous lizard, encounters between females are far more intense and violent than interactions between males.

Scientists demonstrate that just a few genes are responsible for that kind of diversity.

Scales, spines, feathers and hair are examples of vertebrate skin appendages, which constitute a remarkably diverse group of micro-organs. Despite their natural multitude of forms, these appendages share early developmental processes at the embryonic stage. T…

In 2015 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided humanity with the first up-close views of Pluto, passing just 12,472 km (7,750 mi) from the surface. What had always been little more than a fu…

A Phase 1 trail of a universal mRNA-based influenza vaccine is under way at Duke Unversity in Durham, North Carolina. It's being developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NAID) Vaccine Research Center (VRC). New Atlas reports: …

INDIA: In a stunning revelation, scientists made significant strides in understanding the enigmatic Yarkovsky effect, a force exerted by sunlight that subtly alters the trajectories of asteroids throughout the solar system. This celestial phenomenon, named af…

A team of South Korean researchers has created an AI model dubbed DarkBERT to index the Dark Web's websites and forums.

The diamonds inside the Canyon Diablo Meteorite are like no other.

A solar storm from a disturbed area on the side of the sun is rotating and will be pointed at Earth soon.

University of Bristol students have spent a month at the European Space Agency testing their satellite in the brutal conditions it will face in space.The satellite is designed to monitor active volcanoes and make 3D models of their ash clouds. As wel

A perovskite-based device that combines aspects of electronics and photonics may open doors to new kinds of computer chips or quantum qubits

Microsoft released a research paper in March which highlights the potential of these generative artificial intelligence systems to process information like humans

The research is important because it will help scientists find how black holes grow, and how stars are formed from collapsing matter.

Researchers discovered a novel pain-suppression pathway in fruit flies, regulated by just two neurons named 'Epione' or 'Epi'.

The BlackGEM array will search in visible light for mergers of black holes and neutron stars.

The spacecraft Juno conducted more than 50 flybys of the gas giant Jupiter and flew more than 510 million miles

A radiation belt 10 million times brighter than Jupiter's shines in a distant solar system

A team of students and researchers are using virtual reality (VR) to bring ESA’s Argonaut lunar lander concept to life at the European Astronaut Centre.Argonaut is a lunar lander that will deliver scientific instruments and cargo to the Moon at the end of thi…

Scientists have figured out a way to retrieve tiny traces of human genetic material called environmental DNA (eDNA) from thin air.

Systematic alteration of HIV-1 TAR RNA and quantitative determination of its propensity to bind to the Tat protein establish a key role role for a rare and short-lived RNA state in Tat-dependent transactivation in cells.

The DAGGER model is open source and could be adopted by power and grid operators, satellite controllers, and others.

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A simple spectral selective active colloidal system is designed in which TiO2 colloidal species are coded with dyes to form a photochromic swarm that adapts the appearance of incident light due to layered phase segregation.