Machine learning opens new possibilities for quantum devices

Scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with University of Basel and Lancaster University, have…

The EPA disbanded this panel of clean-air experts – they're meeting again anyway

In 2015, a panel of experts was convened to help advise the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…

Healthy organelles, healthy cells

It has recently become clear just how important membraneless organelles are for cells. Now biochemists at…

PIA23474: Cerulli Crater Rim

           Target: Mars Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument:  THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Click here…

New function in a protein of plants essential to developing drought-tolerant crops

Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the University of Málaga (UMA) have discovered…

'Lucky' observation: Scientists watch a black hole shredding a star

A NASA satellite searching space for new planets gave astronomers an unexpected glimpse at a black…

Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake

Caltech scientists have discovered a new species of worm thriving in the extreme environment of Mono…

Recycling rates could rise significantly with this simple tweak

Have you ever thought about what happens to the empty Coke cans and food takeout containers…

How fungus-farming ants could help solve our antibiotic resistance problem

For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation…

Living coral cover will slow future reef dissolution

A team led by David Kline, a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, asked…