Researchers led by Osaka University and NASA find that the distribution of cold planets in the Milky Way is not strongly dependent on the distance from the galactic center.
Extremely premature infants are at a high risk for brain damage.
A botanist and a psychologist have put forward a highly novel theory of the circadian clock based on the integration of bioelectric time-sensing mechanisms in individual cells and parts of cells.
Fossils of ancient viruses are preserved in the genomes of all animals, including humans, and have long been regarded as junk DNA. But are they truly junk, or do they actually serve a useful purpose?
Computational predictions for how a genetic variant will affect a protein's function are very important. For example, this can help determine whether a specific variant is causing a disease.
One of the strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered has been given a makeover by a pair of Belgian and Australian palaeontologists.
Physicists at the University of Sussex have discovered that black holes exert a pressure on their environment, in a scientific first.
Hidden within brush and tall plants are small beetles that hold the key to next generation composite materials in bioengineering.
Flying is an energetically demanding activity, and in insects, has evolved into some of the world’s most agile and speedy flyers.
Scientists have recently found a way to use sunflower pollen to develop a new ink for 3D printing that could be used to fabricate parts useful for tissue engineering, toxicity testing, and drug delivery.
A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa’s Lake Malawi is helping researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to refine our understanding of how evolution works.
Approximately six years ago, I wrote about the integration of colour-shifting photonic crystals into credit cards, banknotes, and passports as a security measure against counterfeiting.
The capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services relied on by millions of people worldwide has declined by half since the 1950s, according to a new University of British Columbia-led study.
Scientists have reported new clues to solving a cosmic conundrum: How the quark-gluon plasma – nature’s perfect fluid – evolved into matter.
A detailed analysis of the way that proteins become bound to nucleotides, the structural units of DNA and RNA, gives insight into how key enzymes that control metabolism in all living organisms may have evolved.
"Watching physics at the Olympics," a short article by Dr. Adrian Bejan, made me wish the author had been my high school physics teacher, because he makes the subject fun, interesting and instructive.
HSE University economists question whether Russian STEM specialists are better paid than non-STEM specialists.
In a volume dedicated to the influential Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson (1896-1982), modern linguist Tyler James Bennett explains how the ambiguity of meaning in poetic metaphor opens the mind to development of its creative potential in a way that literal writing cannot.