A research team led by Prof. Ling Hongqing from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from Ludong University and the Computer Network Information Center of CAS, have ge…

Until 2018, the SI unit of mass, the kilogram, was defined as the mass of a real object: the International Prototype Kilogram, kept in a secure facility in the outskirts of Paris. On November 16, 2018, the kilogram was given a new, internationally-accepted de…

The oldest known seeds from a watermelon relative, dating back 6,000 years to the Neolithic period, were found during an archaeological dig in Libya. An investigation of these seeds led by biologist Susanne S. Renner at Washington University in St. Louis reve…

A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years from the Earth. This is the first discovery by a new instrument on the Subaru Telescope and offers a chance to investigate the possibility of life on planets a…

Stardust is an important ingredient to our lives.

In the 1860s, the chemists, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev, independently presented the first periodic system. Since then, the well-known tabular arrangement of the elements has been the guiding principle of chemistry. A team of researchers from the Max Pl…

Research published in Global and Planetary Change examines the trends and projected frequency, intensity and duration of marine heatwaves (MHWs). A MHW is a 'discrete, prolonged anomalously warm water event' lasting five or more days, with temperatures warmer…

The generation of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs)-derived neurons on different nanowire arrays was demonstrated.

Check out our selection of some of the most striking Earth images taken from the International Space Station during July.

Pieces of plastic in the sea, chlorophyll content in bodies of water, the degree of drought in fields—since April 2022, the German environmental satellite EnMAP has been orbiting our Earth and will be collecting myriad data during its five-year mission. The F…

A platinum-decorated laser-induced graphene (LIG)  biosensor was developed with immobilized flavoenzyme glycine oxidase (GlyOx) and used to detect the dangerous glyphosate herbicide.

Researcher's calculations may suggest that mass extinction won't happen anytime soon. But extinctions will continue to happen.

Scientific Reports - Novel nanosensor of cobalt(II) and copper(II) constructed from graphene quantum dots modified with Eriochrome Black T

An optical method was proposed for rapidly determining the number of layers of 2D materials, MoS2 nanosheets in a MoS2/MoO2 conformal heterostructure.

Dark matter from billions of years ago has finally been detected by scientists on Earth.

The new record happened by accident.

Adding galaxies to dark matter simulations might be easier than you thought – today's authors present a new method to generate synthetic data from relatively low-resolution DM simulations!

The rocket entered Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

BEIJING (AP) — Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit fell into the sea in the Philippines on Sunday, the Chin...

Researchers discovered that the wildfires in Colorado and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere can eventually make their way to the Arctic

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Ius and Tithonium Chasmata, located at the western end of Valles Marineris.

Get into Stellar Photography with this DIY 3D printed telescope.