Some of Earth's oldest living organisms may be right beneath our feet: not ancient trees or coral reefs but fungi. Yet ...

An international research team including Alexander Korsunsky from the Skoltech Engineering Center has, for the first time, ...

Future fusion power plants aim to recreate the heart of a star here on Earth to power our future energy needs. While the core ...

Every 15 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies from a drug-resistant superbug. A few decades from now, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections threaten to become the leading cause of death worldwide, ...

Designing an effective antibody drug is like searching for the right key in a warehouse of locks. Scientists may begin with ...

Made entirely of muscle, with no rigid skeleton, muscular hydrostats like octopus arms, elephant trunks and human tongues can move in ways traditional mechanical systems cannot. Between crawling ...

The latest update of nationwide flood maps, to be released next year, will give communities across New Zealand the clearest ...

Every day, millions of liters of polluted water flow through many South African rivers and disappear into the sea.

A study co-authored by Dr. Mariana Macedo of Constructor University provides new insights into how major life transitions alter how individuals navigate and experience urban environments. Published in ...

Satellite images can be used to estimate how much carbon forests store as aboveground biomass (AGB) and how biomass varies in different forests. In a study published in the journal Nature, a team of ...

Like a delivery driver navigating crowded city streets, a gene-therapy-toting lipid nanoparticle faces a gauntlet of potential detours on its journey toward a cell's nucleus. First, there's entering ...

For decades, astronomers lumped brown dwarfs into a single category defined by mass alone—too big to be classified as planets but too small to become stars. However, this definition ignores the two ...