science

A new study may resolve an old debate about how tough the Vikings actually were. Although TV and movies paint Vikings as robust souls, braving...

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have extended an existing mathematical model so that it can be used to more accurately predict the products...

Spintronics is promising for future low-power electronic devices. Spin is a quantum-mechanical property of electrons that can best be imagined as electrons spinning around...

Scientists from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU) have found four new anti-CRISPR proteins that are distributed across different environments. The new...

Bacteria have multiple strategies to survive antibiotics: developing genetic resistance to the drugs; delaying their growth; or hiding in protective biofilms. New results from...

Using a piece of molecular "Velcro" to attach a light-emitting probe to a protein molecule, University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have unlocked the mystery...

Just like the mythical creation stories that depict the formation of the world as the story of order from chaos, the early Earth was...

Since the beginning of archaeology, researchers have combed the globe searching for evidence of the first domesticated crops. Painstakingly extracting charred bits of barley,...

When we think of life on Earth, we might think of individual examples ranging from animals to bacteria. When astrobiologists study life, however, they...

In a surprising evolutionary twist, a new study suggests that while one rattlesnake may routinely feast on lizard meat, its seemingly identical neighbor snake...

How have stars and planets developed from the clouds of dust and gas that once filled the cosmos? A novel experiment at the U.S....