A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
A computational analysis reveals that many repetitive sequences are shared across proteins and are similar in species from bacteria to humans.
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests.
According to a study completed at the University of Helsinki, mining in shallow marine areas conflicts with international conservation and sustainability goals, bringing with it great environmental risks.
The effects of global climate cycles on Southern Ocean temperatures drove cycles of melting and freezing in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet every few thousand years, according to a new study
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have published new research showing that a species of bacteria which infects fruit flies is capable of introducing parts of its genetic material into that of the fruit fly.
A “grazing encounter” may have smashed the moon to bits to form Saturn’s rings, a new study suggests
Illegal wildlife trade was estimated at $20 billion in 2021 and threatens thousands of species worldwide, scientists say. They note social media is the main marketplace for illegal sales of exotic animals and animal parts to provide consumers with pets, medicinal uses and decorations.
Research team investigates reactivity of single molecules under controlled microscopic conditions
Design principle could guide search for metals with immutable quantum states
Research shows that spinning quasiparticles, or magnons, light up when paired with a light-emitting quasiparticle, or exciton, with potential quantum information applications.
A thin device triggers one of quantum mechanics’ strangest and most useful phenomena
One of Nagoya University’s leading research centers has made another groundbreaking discovery, looking back into parts of space further than ever before.
Signs of disturbance in the dwarf galaxies of one of Earth’s nearest galaxy clusters indicate an alternative gravity theory
Early in its history, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with equal amounts of matter and “antimatter”
New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today – the Hubble constant problem.
To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can “live” outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of our left-handed universe.
No, scientists still don’t know what dark matter is. But MSU scientists helped uncover new physics while looking for it.
A Policy Forum article published today in Science calls for a new approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops, arguing that current approaches for triggering safety testing vary dramatically among countries and generally lack scientific merit