A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Leaving water inside a sodium battery material boosts performance and enables desalination. Sodium-ion batteries could play a major role in the future of sustainable energy storage and may even help ...

A hidden nutrient in the soil could double the speed at which tropical forests, and their climate benefits, come roaring back ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

A common eye ointment may quietly damage glaucoma implants—sometimes to the point of rupture—by making them swell from the ...

A newly identified enzyme appears to control tau production, brain inflammation, and aging. Researchers at the University of ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Inspired by the remarkable camouflage abilities of octopus and cuttlefish, Stanford researchers have developed a soft material that can rapidly shift its surface texture and color at extremely fine ...