An international team led by Tim Sprenger of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy used two of the world’s most ...

For many people today, botanical knowledge doesn’t go much beyond daisies, buttercups, and dandelions. But an app is changing ...

Back in the lab, the team showed how these towers could attach to fruit flies, supporting a long-standing idea: towering ...

Cyanobacteria are among the oldest life forms, and appear to be the forerunners of green chloroplasts in plant cells. They do not possess a true cell nucleus, but their genetic substance is made up of ...

This high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Results from JWST ...

Six lightweight rigid plates made from glass fiber serve as the exoskeleton of each HEXEL module. The inner joints of the hexagons are driven by hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic ...

The diversity of facial shapes in birds and mammals is due to variations in non-coding DNA sequences Same genes, different ...

Most of what scientists know about face development comes from studies in bony vertebrates such as mice, chickens, and zebrafish. However, their evolutionary counterparts, cartilaginous fishes, have ...

Humans and other mammals cycle through distinct sleep phases. One of them is easily recognized by the darting motion of the ...

The microsatellite “Raven” will further advance global understanding of wildlife and Earth’s changing environments from space ...