It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

For many of us, food is something we buy at a supermarket or order at a café. We usually give little thought to the complex systems required to produce and deliver it—until they stop working. It's not ...

Here's a thought experiment that keeps planetary scientists awake at night. Strip every living thing from our planet, every bacterium, every blade of grass, every creature that has ever drawn breath ...

Animals of the same species don't always look the same. From birds with different beak shapes to mammals that vary in size or ...

New research led by James Cook University psychology lecturer Dr. Chae Rose suggests that whether speeding is reduced by deterrence or self-control depends not only on drivers' own views about ...

Conventional crystals are materials in which atoms arrange themselves in repeating spatial patterns. Time crystals, on the other hand, are phases of matter characterized by repeating motions over time ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Fruit flies, mice, zebrafish, yeast and the tiny worm C. elegans are model organisms that have carried modern biology on ...

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed CellScope, a high-performance single-cell analysis ...

Many biological functions are regulated by the switching on and off of mechanisms triggered by the matching of a keyhole ...

Most countries will not achieve climate neutrality through greenhouse gas emission reductions alone; carbon sinks are also ...