Most people know mother-of-pearl, an iridescent biomineral also called nacre, from buttons, jewelry, instrument inlays and other decorative flourishes. Scientists,...
Humans and other mammals have the same genetic foundations for developing oral venom that snakes have, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of...
The Ingenuity helicopter has been unfurling from its hiding spot under Perseverance, but that's just the start of its nail-biting quest to become the first aircraft...
New study shows widest yet dispersal of Australasian DNA in the Americas
What happens to the strength and shape of your heart when you spend a year in the weightlessness of space?
The centre of our own Milky Way galaxy is emitting a mysterious glow which scientists have puzzled over for a decade - but a new paper...
Clusters of galaxies containing hundreds or even thousands of individual galaxies are held together by gravity. As MIT highlights, they move through a sea of hot...
Asteroid Apophis — one of the scariest rocks in the solar system — won’t pose a threat to Earth for at least another century, according to...
A new black hole breaks the record - not for being the smallest or the biggest - but for being right in the middle. The recently...
Applied physicists at the University of Sydney have proposed new standards to measure moisture leaks into bionic devices such as pacemakers, cochlear hearing implants...