Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...

An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth's evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a ...

Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this ...

Corporate boards are increasingly paying their chief executives similarly — a shift that could weaken company performance.

The vast majority of students now use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) programs on a regular basis. Can teachers ...

At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the ...

In work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity ...

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), a DNA amplification technique valued for its speed, specificity, sensitivity, ...

Although glasses exhibit disordered atomic structures, X-ray and neutron scattering reveal a subtle periodicity. Researchers ...

Whether diving off docks, cannonballing into lakes or leaping off the high board, there's nothing quite like the joy of jumping into water.

A team of researchers from TU Dortmund University, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Nottingham has ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...