A chance discovery at Nagoya University in Japan has shown that a well-known brain enzyme has a hidden ability: It builds a ...

Off Oman's coast lives a small population of just over 80 Arabian Sea humpback whales (ASHWs). They are classified as ...

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe, releasing more energy in just a few ...

Researchers at the National Graphene Institute, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, have shown that ...

Experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) require breathtaking precision. Each ...

Physicists at UC Santa Cruz and other institutes across California and New Mexico have developed a detection system that will ...

Sending a spacecraft to the underexplored planet Uranus is at the top of many planetary scientists' wish lists. But which ...

An orange-colored yeast species isolated from a Baltimore sidewalk several years ago could be the basis of eco-friendly ...

In this era of Big Data, the prevailing wisdom is that more information leads to better answers. However, a new Canadian ...

Financial markets are governed by a combination of rational and irrational forces, statistical probabilities and "animal ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts ...

Imagine returning to a favorite hiking trail 15 years after your first visit and discovering that many of the plants and ...