Researchers have analysed an existing model studying noise in quantum systems and have devised a method to quantify its quantum capacity, which is the number of qubits of information a quantum system is capable of safely transmitting per use of fibre.

The mutation prevents certain amino acids from entering neurons, causing the cells to die early in development.

There’s still so much we’ve yet to learn about black holes, but the latest notable discovery is changing attitudes towards them in the scientific community. Normally, we think of black holes as huge celestial objects with gravity strong enough to pull light …

Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odour molecule activates a human odorant receptor, breaking a long-standing impasse in our understanding of olfaction.

The jagged region sits at the boundary between liquid core and solid mantle, and it might be the remnants of ancient seafloor

The universe is expanding, and it's happening at a rapid pace, but determining the exact rate is proving to be a challenge for astrophysicists and

The science behind all those pretty pictures.

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today.

The question of what the Big Bang really represented still bamboozles cosmologists — and Hawking provided more than one answer.

Giant amphibians were once dominant predators up until the rise of dinosaurs in the Triassic Era. This new study detailed how they moved.

Using data acquired from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have stitched together 110,000 images to create the most detailed 3D map of Mars.

Following in the footsteps of last year’s Neptune image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus.

Custom music instruments here at Hackaday range from wacky to poignant. OpnBeat by [Hiro Akihabara] focuses on something different: simplicity. There are few buttons, the design and code are optimi…

The researchers suggest that studying ancient extinction events can help them predict the impact of global warming on the ocean's food chain.

Climate change is not the only factor affecting a species' niche.

The four-person Ax-2 crew will spend 10 days at the station conducting research and educational outreach activities.

In pluripotent cells, histones help switch certain genes on and off to commit to specific cell types, be they neurons, muscles, or other tissue. Highly regulated by histones, genes act as a voice that tell cells how to develop. How quiet or loud a gene is det…

Mother nature never ceases to amaze us. It’s a source of life for awe-inspiring creatures, from delicate to humongous, and everything in between. However, some of the latter might seem delicate, too, compared to the living things that have gone extinct.

The new type of time crystals operate at microwave frequencies and can amplify electromagnetic waves

Time to nuke some fools.

They existed when the universe was just 3 billion years old.

It feels like a classical paradox: How do you see the invisible? But for modern astronomers, it is a very real challenge: How do you measure dark matter, which by…

There can be millions of stars in a globular cluster, that are all held together by the influence of gravity

Black holes are found throughout our universe. However, astronomers have discovered two new black holes close to Earth that have raised some eyebrows. While discovering

The new findings may affect how researchers build computer models forecasting air pollution.