They only sort of do the same thing, and they aren't always interchangeable.

Even as the UK government attempts to prepare for new pandemics, the country's scientists have warned about a new 'deadly virus' that kills nearly every second patient

Controlling chemical reactions to generate new products is one of the biggest challenges in chemistry. Developments in this area impact industry, for example, by reducing the waste generated in the manufacture of construction materials or by improving the pro…

The surprising parallel between spider silk spinning and fibres toxic to humans could one day lead to new clues about how to fight neurodegenerative disorders.

,We all used to think there were nine planets. But in 2006, the solar system was left with only eight planets, when Pluto was no longer classified as such. But is it still possible there is a planet out there beyond Neptune—possibly way beyond it?

New research shows progress on playbook for programming ribosome to make diverse polymers. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, part of the National Science Foundation Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM), are altering ribosomes i…

Plate tectonics cycle nutrients and help Earth shed heat. But are they necessary for life? Do exoplanets need tectonics to be habitable?

A curious Argentinian habit might end up explaining the behavior of complex fluids like magma.

Despite completing a flight readiness test last week, ULA may have to push the inaugural launch of the heavy-lift rocket to late 2023.

Turbulence is all around us. It's in the swirl of coffee and milk in a latte, unfurling along the wings of airplanes and the sides of cars, churning the blood in your heart after the valve snaps closed. Yet we still don't fully grasp all of its rules.

Fragments of asteroids or larger celestial bodies, which cross the atmosphere, resist burning caused by friction with the air layer and reach the ground: these are meteorites. “They are rocky or metallic fragments. On the other hand, the meteor or sh

A charming umbrella cockatoo named Chris has taken to calling all women Barbara after falling in love with his elderly human grandmother.

Songhu Wang is an assistant professor of astronomy at Indiana University. Wang states exoplanets are planets orbiting stars other than the sun. For a long time, human knowledge was limited to the immediate solar system. Now, thousands of exoplanets e

Songhu Wang is an assistant professor of astronomy at Indiana University. Wang states exoplanets are planets orbiting stars other than the sun. For a long time, human knowledge was limited to the immediate solar system. Now, thousands of exoplanets e

University of Pretoria (UP) researchers are at the forefront of a very special first for South African plant sciences. They have unravelled the precise genetic make-up of the country’s national flower, the king protea (Protea cynaroides). It is the f

Abstract. The Rosetta mission escorted comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for approximately two years including the perihelion passage (1.24 au, August 2015), allo

Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.

Zhao et al. have developed a method to detect and quantify single molecules of RNA in several intact plant tissues. The method can also be used to simultaneously quantify and locate mRNAs and proteins in single cells with subcellular resolution.

The discovery of a rare type of star system provides new insights into the dynamo model's predictions for stellar evolution. The new white dwarf pulsar, an extremely close binary system of a white dwarf star and a red dwarf star that together would fit inside…

The soil bacterium Streptomyces iranensis triggers the production of natural products in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans using arginine-derived polyketide signalling molecules.

When the makers of the Star Wars film franchise dreamt up a planet with two suns in the 1970s, they gave sci-fi enthusiasts some of the most iconic images of the series.How could fans forget a young Luke Skywalker staring into the double sunset on the desert …

There is a clear statistical correlation between global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation recorded at the surface of our planet, potentially helping to predict earthquakes. Surprisingly, it exhibits a periodicity that escapes u…

Novel 3D bioprinting process could save thousands of lives by streamlining the creation of tissue-compatible artificially engineered organs.

A new system that uses subatomic particles produced high in Earth's atmosphere could provide a view inside volcanoes and help locate people trapped beneath rubble.