In a scientific first, South Korean scientists have provided experimental proof of "multi-scale coupling" in plasma, where interactions between phenomena at the microscopic level and macroscopic level ...

Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest.

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity's expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There's the engineering challenge ...

The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis "Tink" Bell, a ...

In order to fulfill their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered tiny "folding factories" in cells that enable ...

People who meet their romantic partners online report lower levels of marital satisfaction and experience love less intensely ...

In materials science, defects are usually seen as problems, unwanted microscopic features that degrade performance, reduce ...

Fossils are the backbone—oftentimes literally—of researching the far past. And because most of human evolution took place ...

D printing is going to be a critical technology in space exploration, both for its ability to create almost any object, but ...

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in ...

A new scientific paper reveals that many predictions about the future of coral reefs under climate change may be missing a ...