A lamprey’s mouth has inspired a new suction device that can grip in air and underwater. The design aims to solve a ...

The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...

Atomic structure of the hexagonal diamond. Image from the study. Researchers named it lonsdaleite, after crystallographer ...

Roughly 2,000 years ago, a traveler from southern India stood inside the sacred tombs of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and decided to leave his mark. The man, named Cikai Korran, carved his name into ...

This macabre trade first came to light in 2015 when scientists found dead bats, including painted woolly bats, for sale in Vietnam’s largest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City. Then, nearly a decade later, ...

Here, students can decide, session by session, whether to walk into a physical classroom or log in from their kitchen table.

The GPR133 receptor is expressed by osteoblasts, the cells that make bone. The study suggests that this receptor helps those cells sense two kinds of input: mechanical strain and signals relayed by ...

On Monday, the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) greenlit a sprawling, three ...

Underground spaces tend to trap heat. Soil and rock act as insulation, making it harder for warmth to escape. Trains, brakes, ...

Rendering of the planetary collision astronomers suspect occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Credit: Andy Tzanidakis ...

In the 1950s, a passenger in Leeds, England, boarded a bus and paid their fare with a funny-looking coin. For the bus driver, ...