An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off northern Japan on Monday prompted a short-lived tsunami alert ...

Researchers have developed a thin plastic film that tears apart viruses on contact, offering a promising new way to keep high ...

A study reported in Current Biology shows how physical disabilities in the animal world can be overcome through behavioral ...

Spanish Renaissance master El Greco is often considered one of the greatest painters of all time, and many of his artworks ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Two independent research teams have each demonstrated collisional quantum gates using fermionic atoms: a long-sought ...

A migratory bird brain, the Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), has been mapped for the first time using high-resolution light microscopy. The open-source software tools developed, and the ...

Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein's theory of relativity, time is not absolute: ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

With their dazzling blooms, orchids are among the most famous and collected flowering plants on Earth. But orchids are not ...

Researchers have uncovered that an orthogonal molecular architecture directs the formation of a rare double-cable structure, ...

Older workers are stereotyped as less competent, less trainable, and less adaptable by their younger colleagues, influencing ...