On the ecosystems and climate, ocean areas that are rich in marine life are having a greater effect than earlier believed, according to the new study proposal.

New insight has been gained into stellar evolution by the breakthrough of a rare type of white dwarf star system.

Media are invited to view NASA’s Orion spacecraft for upcoming Artemis missions at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida later this summer.

A team of planetary scientists from Belgium, the U.S., France and Germany has found evidence from the InSight lander that suggests Mars has an all-liquid core and internal mass anomalies. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes the…

Real data can be hard to get, so researchers are turning to synthetic data to train their artificial intelligence systems.

A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants.

Typical superconducting quantum circuits, such as qubits—basic processing units of a quantum computer, must be operated at very low temperatures, of a few 10s of millikelvin, or hundredths of a degree from absolute zero temperature. These temperatures are tod…

The deep-space telescope now has a partner to help hunt for habitable conditions around other stars.

Only one year after introducing a new concept to membrane carriers, Werner Nau, Professor of Chemistry, and fellow researchers from Constructor University in Bremen, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and the Czech Academy of Sciences celebrate yet anothe…

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery.

It looks cool - but don't touch it.

Researchers say this dinosaur would have been roaming the earth during the early Cretaceous period.

With a dramatic boost in computing capability, a team of researchers has solved a decades-long mystery about whether optical waves can be trapped in three-dimensional randomly packed micro- or nanoparticles. It's a discovery that could open new possibilities …

Thanks to some freak accidents, life on earth is *a lot* more interesting than the simple old single cells it used to consist of.

On 9 October 2022 a flash of high-intensity gamma rays was detected by NASA's Swift satellite coming from a galaxy 1.9 billion light-years away. Dubbed the "BOAT"—the "brightest of all time"—GRB 221009A was so exceptionally powerful that it actually sent shoc…

The galaxy NGC 7292 billows across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

A new study has suggested a possible benefit, but the practice is not recommended by health authorities.

Kagome metals are a class of quantum materials with interesting properties that are characterized by a unique lattice structure resembling Japanese woven bamboo patterns of the same name (i.e., Kagome). Over the past decade, physicists have been using these m…

Chromatin states and their associated epigenetic information play a crucial role in maintaining the identity of cells as they divide. Histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) are important determinants of the cellular epigenetic state, carrying epigene…

European scientists want to send an inflatable radio telescope to the Moon

A human cell contains around 2 metres of DNA, which contains an individual's important genetic information. If all the DNA contained within a single person were unwound and stretched out, it would cover an astonishing distance - enough to reach the sun and ba…

8 Indian Scientists Who Made Global Contributions

The depths of the Earth, still largely unexplored, harbour tantalizing mysteries. A team of scientists recently presented evidence that two gigantic structures deep within our planet could be the remains of an ancient planet.1 Tracing Echoes of an Ancient Pla…