One billion-year-old green seaweed fossils identified, relative of modern land plants

Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds…

Ability to control spin of atom-like impurities in 2-D material hexagonal boron-nitride demonstrated

A team of international scientists investigating how to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2-D…

Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes

Do a Google search for dark-field images, and you’ll discover a beautifully detailed world of microscopic…

Australia fires were far worse than any prediction

The ‘breathtaking scale’ of the Australian bushfires were way beyond anything climate science predicted, say scientists. …

Europe's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover to make 'pit stop' for repair

The Rosalind Franklin robot will be moved from Cannes to Turin to fix a fault on…

Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who…

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies

Johnson was one of NASA’s human “computers” and wrote trajectory equations for missions in the space…

Study of 418,000 Europeans finds different foods linked to different types of stroke

Different types of food are linked to risks of different types of stroke, according to the…

Vision rehab treatment effective for stroke and injury related blindness

A new study shows that visual rehabilitation is effective for patients who have suffered vision loss…

Threatened birds and mammals have irreplaceable roles in the natural world

A new study has shown that threatened birds and mammals are often ecologically distinct and irreplaceable…