Most human diseases can be traced to malfunctioning parts of a cell — a tumor is able to grow because a gene wasn’t accurately translated into a particular protein or a metabolic disease arises...
Remains of a toothless, two-legged dinosaur species that lived some 70 million years ago has been discovered in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, calling it a "very rare" find. The small dinosaur,...
If you’re unlucky enough not to have retired by 2050, the working world will be a very different place to how it is today. The vision of the future for workers tends to scale from a nihilistic...
An astronomer from NSF's NOIRLab has teamed up with a geologist from California State University, Fresno, to make the first estimates of rock types that exist on planets orbiting nearby stars. After...
In many ways, our neighbouring planet is very similar to Earth. It’s a rocky planet of about the same size, and it has an atmosphere and some water. Yet, a closer look reveals striking differences...
The huge spider - which hails from East Asia - spread widely this year in the north of the US state of Georgia, which frightened the population and puzzled scientists, after it occupied with its...
Nearly 20 years after researchers first predicted electron quadruplets and evidence of their existence are shown to do in experimental setups, representing a brand-new state of matter which opens-up...
Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe a David and Goliath-type battle between a massive galaxy and a much smaller one, 220 million light-years from Earth. One of the outcomes...
There’s no doubt that whales are one of the most extraordinary animals on our planet, but did you know that they’re also helping to lighten the load of climate change? We tend to think of trees...
Amphawa, a village located an hour's drive southwest of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, at the bend of the Mae Klong River. Until recently, tourists flocked there to watch a spectacular light show...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is putting the pressure on the U.S. government to help subsidize chip manufacturing, insisting the current reliance on plants in Taiwan and Korea as "geopolitically...
Coral is an animal whose head looks like a tiny, slimy feather duster. After finding a nice neighborhood to settle down in, its soft body, known as a polyp, slowly grows a hard calcium...
The former Pentagon chief of software told the Financial Times that China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading for global dominance due to its...
With all due respect to the Saint-Cyrians, who named their red and white plume headdress with his name, the cassowary remains first and foremost a bird. An impressive creature, which can reach 75 kg...
Jezero crater on Mars was a quiet lake 3.7 billion year ago, but a flash flood crashed large boulders onto the delta, images from NASA's Perseverance Rover revealed. The Perseverance Rover has been...
WildCRU researchers and colleagues have captured the first ever images of Walter’s duiker (Philantomba walteri) alive in the wild. Dubbed one of the world’s most secretive mammals, this small...
Geologists have been baffled by perforations in an Australian quartzite (rock), identical in shape to burrows made in sands by crustaceans; the original sandy sediment is a billion years older than...
An international research team was able to find 6 huge galaxies completely devoid of cold hydrogen clouds responsible for the formation of new stars, and the strange thing is that these galaxies...
Humans became aware of the power of microbes many centuries ago, and were able to harness them for various purposes, from using them in the production of bread, beer and milk through the...
If you want to explore the entire universe through your computer, now is your chance. An international team of researchers has created an entirely virtual universe, and made it available to all. The...
