science
Solar plane on global trip soars from California to Arizona
In this April 23, 2016 file photo, Solar Impulse 2 flies over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco at the end of its...
Earth may be home to one trillion species
Soils are one of the largest reservoirs of microbial diversity on Earth. It is not uncommon for a gram of soil to contain one...
World’s tiniest engine small enough to enter living cells
Expanding polymer-coated gold nanoparticles.Credit: Yi Ju/University of Cambridge NanoPhotonics
Researchers have developed the world's tiniest engine -- just a few billionths of a metre in...
Breast cancer study: Towards personalized treatment
The largest-ever study to sequence the whole genomes of breast cancers has uncovered five new genes associated with the disease and 13 new mutational...
Eta Aquarids: Annual Meteor Shower Takes Place as Earth Passes Through...
A photo of Halley’s comet during its closest approach to the inner solar system in 1986. Credit NASA
The month-long event occurs until May 21,...
Boiling Water Shapes Martian Terrain
Comparison of morphologies formed by the flow of liquid water on Earth and on Mars.Credit: Marion Massé
At present, liquid water on Mars only exists...
Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa
Unbearably hot: In the Middle East and North Africa, the average temperature in winter will rise by around 2.5 degrees Celsius (left) by the...
HMS Endeavour: Archaeologists Say They May Have Found Captain James Cook’s...
A sketch of the HMS Endeavour, which was believed to have been scuttled during the American Revolution.
The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project said in...
What lies beneath West Antarctica?
This is an artist's conception of the Antarctic subglacial environment.Credit: Zina Deretsky, NSF
Three recent publications by early career researchers at three different institutions across...
Could aluminum nitride be engineered to produce quantum bits?
This graphic illustrates an engineered nitrogen vacancy in aluminum nitride. Credit: H.Seo, M.Govoni and G.Galli, University of Chicago
Quantum computers have the potential to break common...
Three potentially habitable worlds found around nearby ultracool dwarf star
This artist's impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from...
