Despite low estrogen levels, rapid repair responses in lactating animals could help guide new treatments to improve ...

Hongbian Li shares her experience as a reviewer, shifting to industry, and on translating materials research into real-world ...

Tracking two black-browed albatross colonies showed how unpredictable conditions push birds toward more cautious reproductive ...

From its unique properties to the physics of phase transitions, Limei Xu explains how studying water can reveal fundamental ...

Laura Horan, Staff Engineer and Head of Product Management at Vanguard Automation, talks to Elisenda Lara, EPIC’s MarCom Manager, about her career in the photonics industry.

Self-powered, entirely biological constructs injected with neural precursor cells reveal the surprising flexibility of nervous systems. The notion of “adapt or die” is an underlying principle of ...

In this first article in a series on philosophy and science, we take a look at materialism and why it is fundamental to science. A short disclaimer before we read further: I’m a materialist.

A pair of nuclear astrophysicists explore this question, assessing the risk of this outcome back when nuclear physics was still in its infancy. “Are you saying there’s a chance that when we push that ...

More than 100 years on after Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize, some confusion remains around the committee's reasons for omitting relativity. On 9 November 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences voted ...

Direct air capture can find its roots in antiquity and will be a major technology for the future. In 1999, Klaus Lackner, a chemical engineer at Arizona State University, was recognized as the first ...

How seven ancient viruses ranging in age from 27,000 to 48,500 years were recovered from the Siberian permafrost, and what researchers hope to learn from them. Recently, scientists have reported the ...

When the light absorbers are made very small, almost all the device performance metrics improve—but doing this is easier said than done. Just as the miniaturization of computer transistors has ...