Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

If there's one material that defines modern life more than any other, it's plastic: present from the moment we're born in ...

The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in "super handy" during the medical crisis.

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could reliably tackle various computational problems that cannot be solved by classical computers. These ...

Nearly three decades ago, scientists found that a pair of molecules in rye pollen exhibited an unusual ability to slow tumor ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new technique to identify the initiation sites of a destructive process ...

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have developed a pine-bark–based water-treatment medium that efficiently ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more ...

A new CIIMAR study demonstrates that natural peptides produced by cyanobacteria are capable of replacing toxic biocides that ...

Snow is a defining feature of mountain ranges, and of winter itself for much of the world. But beyond its scenic value, snow ...