NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn's organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to ...

The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a ...

Electron spin states can now be probed at much higher resolution and more efficiently, opening new opportunities in materials ...

Humans, Homo sapiens, have unique features compared with other closely related hominin species and primates, including the ...

It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise ...

A consortium made up of researchers from more than ten countries, including Brazil, the United States and some European ...

Anyone who regularly watches news or sports has likely noticed the steady creep of content competing for screen space, ...

A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, ...

Globally, last year was the warmest for thousands of years, with a globally averaged temperature of at least 1.45°C greater ...

Coffee beans in a jar and piles of rice or sand are examples of granular matter: materials composed of large numbers of ...

When a single bacterial cell divides into two during periods of rapid growth, it doesn't split in half once it reaches a ...

Soil bacteria help regulate the cycling of carbon and nutrients on Earth. Over time, these bacteria have evolved strategies ...