Science

A newly released study describes how researchers collaborated to design the first comprehensive roadmap for protecting microbial life. The effort...

A research effort led by Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka has generated an in-depth structural map of a bacteriophage, offering new insight...

If it ever becomes achievable, hypersonic flight could dramatically reshape international travel. What currently requires an entire day could become...

The quest to create useful quantum technologies begins with a deep understanding of the strange laws that govern quantum behavior...

In Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, microglia (the brain's immune cells) play a double role. They can...

Most Americans don't realize the cancer risks of alcohol. More than half of U.S. adults either underestimate or misunderstand how...

The question of whether spacetime truly exists should not be particularly controversial or even conceptually difficult once we understand what...

Brains, spiders, (were)wolves and slimy eyeballs might sound like props from a horror movie, but these eerie topics come straight...

For years, many scientists have warned that Earth is undergoing another mass extinction, with species disappearing faster than ever before....

Having lower cholesterol levels may help protect against dementia, according to a large-scale international study led by the University of...