We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police ...

Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...

Early in the pandemic, most research, including our own, focused on designing drugs that could block the virus's spike ...

As the world grapples with the intertwined challenges of global forest degradation and climate change, traditional forest ...

Features of spaceflight such as gravitational changes and circadian rhythm disruption—not to mention radiation—take a toll on ...

How did life leap from simple microbial cells to the complex, structured cells that make up animals, plants, and fungi? A new ...

Apatite. Rhymes with appetite, and fittingly, plays a vital role in the very act of eating. Found in teeth and bones, apatite ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly.