Scientific discoveries and research
The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth—things like marin...
The buildup of a protein called 𝛂-synuclein (ASN) into toxic clumps is a hallmark of synucleinopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases that inc...
Women politicians are significantly more likely than their male colleagues to refrain from speaking out in public for fear of threats or harassment—pa...
Magnetic switching processes are considered a prime example of controllable physics at the nanometer scale: in certain thin-film systems, a short elec...
The research, conducted by Wierikx at the Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, is based on more than 3,000 organizational asses...
Many of the most exciting discoveries in science involve highly specialized knowledge and making connections between far-flung facts. Scientists must...
Researchers at the University of Plymouth recently confirmed what board game fans and role-playing game (RPG) enthusiasts have known for decades: that...
Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed a light-driven technique that quickly amasses thousands of bacteria into a single spot, boost...
It's getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX's Starlink and other players in the mega-satellite constellation game are...
Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel prize winner—that first po...
Marine microplastics affect algae's ability to grow and photosynthesize. Researchers have now calculated what impact this has on the greenhouse effect...
Seismic waves traveling through Earth's interior often propagate at different speeds depending on their direction, a phenomenon known as seismic aniso...
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