And in one of the most remote corners of the planet, beneath Antarctica, gravity is at its weakest. In a new study published ...

A new theoretical framework shows that tidal forces in inspiraling neutron star pairs can be described through oscillation modes, opening a new path to studying ultra-dense matter using gravitational ...

This insight may also help researchers better understand how other organs develop and could eventually inspire new medical ...

But new research shows the lungs don’t follow that rule. A study in Nature Communications reveals that certain lung cells are ...

This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in ...

Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Scientists develop fluorescent dye-loaded nanosized, irregularly-shaped microplastics to track their movement in real time.

Long before the infamous Black Death swept through medieval Europe, killing a third of its population, another strain of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, haunted humanity. This earlier strain ...

Artist’s illustration of the interplay of a vibrational mode in electron-transfer processes Credit Credit: Pratyush Ghosh The ...

One major challenge has been the shape of the laser beam itself. Researchers at the University of Basel have recently shown ...

Traditional weight‑loss methods often don’t deliver lasting results, so researchers are searching for new answers. One ...