The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six massive galaxies that emerged not long after the Big Bang, a study said Wednesday, surprising scientists by forming at a speed that contradicts our current understanding of the universe.

In his famous letter to the Royal Society dated Oct. 9, 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled eukaryote (Vorticella) and its fascinating ultrafast cell contraction as the first set of discoveries.

Fruit flies can detect magnetic fields, and the way they do it suggests the capacity is widespread in the animal kingdom, not a rare anomaly.

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.”

A tough, bell-shaped fungus that grows on the rotting bark of trees has been used as a fire starter for centuries, earning it the nickname 'tinder fungus.'

New research sheds light on how electric fields can be used to alter the thermal properties of ferroelectric materials, allowing engineers to manipulate the flow of heat through the materials. Ferroelectric materials are used in a wide variety of applications…

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes in this fifteenth edition to Anne L’Huillier (Lund University, Sweden), Paul Corkum (University of Ottawa, Canada) and Ferenc Krausz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany), the…

For the first time, scientists have used machine learning to create brand-new enzymes, which are proteins that accelerate chemical reactions. This is an important step in the field of protein design as new enzymes could have many uses across medicine and indu…

SLAC and Stanford researchers created a new type of quantum material whose atomic lattice has been warped into a herringbone-like pattern. The resulting distortions are 'huge' compared to those in other materials, and are the first demonstration of the Jahn-T…

A team of Chinese researchers have revealed a hierarchical mechanism under spider dragline silk spinning, which is expected to benefit spider-inspired artificial fibers.

A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has tracked two pairs of supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies on collision courses, NASA said on Wednesday.This is the first evidence for such an impending encounter, providing scientists with

A tough, bell-shaped fungus that grows on the rotting bark of trees has been used as a fire starter for centuries, earning it the nickname “tinder fungus.”

On Wednesday, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin said they partnered with North Carolina-based company Smart Material Solutions Inc. to develop...

A new study shows that carbonaeous dust grains existed much earlier than previously thought, which has significant implications for galactic evolution.

A RIFF on what country is really about.

Researchers took a closer look at the molecular structure of tinder fingus, a bell-shaped fungus that grows on trees — and they've found "ingeniously lightweight biological designs."

Incredible ancient relics such as fossils, dinosaur footprints, desert cities, mosaics, artefacts and carvings that have recently been uncovered.

Using extensive satellite measurements, researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have conducted a study that shows how movements of the ice sheet appear to be closely linked wit…

The NSW Nationals in government have taken another step forward in the mission to develop world first mRNA vaccines against exotic livestock diseases, with sheep being given a trial mRNA vaccine for Border Disease at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Insti…

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced the invention of a nanowire, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, which can be cheaply grown by common bacteria and can be tuned to "smell" a vast array of chemical tracers—including …

Federal partnership in SKAO project will give Canadian scientists access to largest telescope ever conceived

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a new type of quantum material whose atomic scaffolding, or lattice, has been dramatically warped into a herringbone pattern.

Nearly a decade ago, researchers heralded the discovery of a new wonder class of ultrathin materials with special optical and electrical properties that made it a potential rival for graphene, a form of carbon discovered in 2004 whose own special properties i…

Previous geologists had pooh-poohed the idea of the crater coming from a meteorite.

A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at the Universities of Manchester and Leicester, supported by the National Physical Laboratory, has suggested that the animal world's ability to sense a magnetic field may be more widespread than previously though…