A non-toxic coating developed by researchers at University of Toronto Engineering prevents proteins from sticking to surfaces ...

The new focus on manned missions to the moon and Mars presents countless pressing challenges, including keeping humans alive ...

This series of images shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as it got a rock stuck to the drill on the end of its robotic arm, ...

Scientists at Keele University have created the first detailed map of the genetic "switches" that control reproduction in disease-carrying insects such as Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species most ...

New research from Northern Arizona University found that a global greenhouse gas emissions database produced by the Climate ...

In a new paper, an international team led by scientists from Charles University, Czechia, has brought evidence linking widespread release of methane (CH₄)—a strong greenhouse gas—from the Greenland ...

About 600 million years ago, the continents wandered Earth, yet to settle into their current positions. Their locations during the Ediacaran (as this time is called) have been tough for scientists to ...

A new model to predict how language changes over time has been developed by a statistical physicist at the University of ...

That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the ...

Acid-filled pitchers complete with fangs. Labyrinthine chambers decorated with bristles. Leaves that snap shut in less than a ...

As much as 40 million metric tons of microplastics are released into the environment globally every year. These tiny pieces ...

Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs ...