Researchers have identified the gene expression regulation mechanisms that drive the metamorphosis of coral from larvae that float freely in…
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Lung cancer screening has always been expensive, but a simple blood test that detects lipids associated with tumours may offer…
A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provides a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more…
Science fans, yourself a bargain on this fantastic word game that uses the periodic table as the playing board.Frenetic from…
Use of yield stress hydrogels to 3D-print functional soft components for soft robotics with a high degree of complexity. Credit:…
Interpersonal trust is a crucial component of healthy relationships. When we interact with strangers, we quickly gauge whether we can…
Wounds in the gut can cause dangerous infections, but a sticky medical dressing can patch them up and allow them…
A flying robot with wings controlled by an electric field instead of heavy motors and gears slightly outperforms insect muscles…
People who get weird sensations in their head and neck when they watch soothing videos are more likely to be…
Over the course of nearly five years, a female gazelle in Mongolia completed a remarkable journey of at least 18,000…
Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel. The…
Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide pollution have fallen sharply in Hong Kong since it introduced a world-first scheme to detect…
Sharks and rays are one of the most ancient vertebrate groups, as well as one of the most endangered. Researchers…
Finding the best massage gun is crucial for gym enthusiasts and people who regularly spend long hours in front of…
For more than 20 years, his team and others around the world had been chasing an elusive quarry — the…
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei can’t wait to see his wife after landing back on Earth after a record-breaking 355-day…
Analysis of minerals in a Martian meteorite suggest that the planet may have begun to be hospitable for life 30…
Many of us will be all too familiar with muscle knots. They’re essentially sore spots that form when bands of…
“You don ’t look autistic.” This is what people say when I first tell them I ’m on the spectrum.…
One of the last decade’s most staggering cinematic achievements, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune took an all star cast and superlative special…
A new discovery by physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) could make certain components in computers and smartphones obsolete.…
A committee of MPs says the UK government should update plans to ban gas boilers from new homes, introducing the…
Scientists have finally mapped an entire human genome, nearly two decades after researchers first announced that they had sequenced the…
The researchers used their new fabrication approach to create various structures that combined chalcogenide IR glass with fused silica glass.…
Around the world, between 40 and 50 volcanoes are currently erupting or in states of unrest, and hundreds of millions…
An extremely rare type of helium that was created soon after the Big Bang is leaking out of Earth’s metallic…
A droplet of silicone oil pinches of from fluids with different concentrations of 140 µm particles: (A) is pure liquid,…
A machine learning analysis of 50,000 privacy policy texts shows they have ballooned to an average of over 4000 words…
The stock market behaves unpredictably and is an example of a nonlinear dynamical system. In this study, researchers from TUS…