Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new graphene-based nanoelectronics platform that could be the key to finding a successor to

Expanding on their recently developed electrochemical 3D atomic force microscopy (EC-3D-AFM) technique, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have derived the depth profile of the charge density of electric double layers (EDLs). Through statisti…

A spinning world could host a Manhattan-sized space settlement.

Whether radiation exposure of fathers can have consequences on their children is one of the most long-standing questions in radiation biology.

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Have you ever eaten chicken feet? If you haven't, you might be surprised to learn there's actually quite a bit of flesh down there. And scales too! They're wonderful—and informative—pieces of engineering.

Among domestic mushroom pickers in Germany it goes without saying that many edible mushrooms in our forests are still contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Less well known is that mushrooms can also accumulate oth…

Researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic parameters.

A new superabsorbent sheet made of hydrogel could lead to better tampons and sanitary napkins that soak up three times the amount of menstrual blood compared to current products.

Researchers have developed new software that integrates a variety of information from a single cell, allowing researchers to see how one change in a cell can lead to several others and providing important clues for pinpointing the exact causes of genetic-base…

Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards -- and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ecosystem of dinosaurs.

Staring through thick clouds of gas and dust of the Orion Nebula astronomers were able to see the outbursts erupting from young stars as they gather mass.

When it comes to kitchen spills, paper towels and rags do the job. But using a hydrogel -- a gelatin-like material in the form of a dry sheet -- researchers have crafted a better picker-upper that absorbs and holds about three times more water-based liquid. T…

A pressing quest in the field of nanoelectronics is the search for a material that could replace silicon. Graphene has seemed promising for decades. But its potential has faltered along the way, due to damaging processing methods and the lack of a new electro…

Damage to the paternal genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans cannot be repaired and is instead passed on to its offspring, while the female egg repairs or limits the damage.

Nan Madol, a strange site in the Pacific, may be on an island that's sinking.

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The first fully integrated static fire test of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket is expected…

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology. A collaboration between the working groups of Christa Schleper at the University of Vienna and Martin Pilhofer at ETH Zurich has come a step closer to the answer. …

KOUROU - Flights of the new European Vega-C rocket have been suspended pending an investigation into an overnight launch failure, French firm Arianespace said Wednesday, leaving Europe with few avenues into space.

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology.

Bill Nelson, the supreme head of the US Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, has called the Artemis I mission, the first in 50 years to orbit the Moon, reach a few thousand kilometres beyond it and return to Earth, a "resounding success". The excellent…

A chunk of Russian space junk came uncomfortably close to the International Space Station early Wednesday, resulting in a debris avoidance maneuver. Routine ...