A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their own way home — a behavior previously undocumented —...
Scientists are figuring out the chemical triggers that turn the liquid stored in silk glands into a solid that’s tougher than Kevlar.
Researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo-IIS) have designed novel linear nanomotors that can be moved in controlled...
Changing cuisines in ancient China were driven by multiple environmental and cultural practices over thousands of years, according to a study published November...
For centuries, historians and scientists mostly agreed that when early human groups sought food, men hunted and women gathered. However, a 9,000-year-old female...
A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a novel method for using DNA in seawater samples to determine which fish species are present in a given...
Named for a mythological Chinese chimera, Kylinxia zhangi, a newly described fossilized arthropod, possesses some of the weirdest bits of other early arthropods....
An unusual asteroid trailing behind Mars has a lot in common with our moon.
Turbulence is an omnipresent phenomenon—and one of the great mysteries of physics. A research team from the University of Oldenburg in Germany has now succeeded...
A fiber-optic block that plugs into an ion-trap chip can deliver multiple wavelengths of light directly to ions, potentially enabling portable and scalable quantum...