New textile unravels warmth-trapping secrets of polar bear fur

Engineers have invented a fabric that concludes the 80-year quest to make a synthetic textile modeled…

Engineered plants produce sex perfume to trick pests and replace pesticides

Tobacco plants have been engineered to manufacture an alluring perfume of insect sex pheromones, which could…

Webb reveals never-before-seen details in Cassiopeia A

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind…

How to see the invisible: Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model

Astrophysicists have measured a value for the ‘clumpiness’ of the universe’s dark matter (known to cosmologists…

Here's how a worm's embryonic cells changed its development potential

Researchers have spotted how specific proteins within the chromosomes of roundworms enable their offspring to produce…

Study sheds light on how IBD can develop

A new study could help improve personalized medicine approaches in inflammatory bowel disease by understanding how…

Scientists discover a way Earth's atmosphere cleans itself

Human activities emit many kinds of pollutants into the air, and without a molecule called hydroxide…

Lonely people's divergent thought processes may contribute to feeling 'alone in a crowded room'

The neural responses of lonely individuals differ from those of other people, suggesting that seeing the…

Scientists use peroxide to peer into metal oxide reactions

Researchers to get a better look at how peroxides on the surface of copper oxide promote…

High blood pressure in your 30s is associated with worse brain health in your 70s

High blood pressure in early adulthood is associated with worse brain health in late life, according…