Your plane travel destroys polar bear habitat

A group of polar bear researchers wants you to do more than worry about the fate…

Printing objects that can incorporate living organisms

A method for printing 3-D objects that can control living organisms in predictable ways has been…

Artificial cells react to environmental changes

Cells are the basic unit of life. They provide an environment for the fundamental molecules of…

Ghostly particles detected in condensates of light and matter

Bose-condensed quantum fluids are not forever. Such states include superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). …

A new approach to reveal the multiple structures of RNA

Experimental data and computer simulations have yielded an innovative technique to characterize the configurations of an…

How old are they? Some non-photosynthetic orchids consist of dead wood

Botanists have long held a fascination for heterotrophic plants, not only because they contradict the notion…

Mount Vesuvius eruption: Extreme heat 'turned man's brain to glass'

Experts say the man’s brain, found in the Roman town of Herculaneum, was affected by extreme…

Study reveals two writers penned landmark inscriptions in eighth-century BCE Samaria

The ancient Samaria ostraca—eighth-century BCE ink-on-clay inscriptions unearthed at the beginning of the 20th century in…

Spacewalks, science and Beyond

Spacewalk season continues on the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew…

Can Space Traffic Control Handle The Volume Of Private Launches?

SpaceX is launching more of its a mega-constellation of satellites on Friday to provide Internet all…