Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

China hopes to increasingly control when and where it rains in the country. Ally Hirschlag examines its controversial cloud seeding plan – and whether it actually works.

When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.

During times of political turmoil, history often gets rewritten, erased, or lost. That is what happened to the legacy of Jan ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Scientists have a solid understanding of what makes up spindles — the cellular machinery that separates chromosomes — but are less certain about how the building blocks of spindles, called ...

The Great Barrier Reef is in such rapid decline that Australian researchers are now trying something that once sounded like science fiction: brightening clouds to cast a protective shade over the ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Abstract: Recently, motion generation technology using deep learning has been attracting attention as a method for robots to acquire motions adapted to their environment. The combination of imitation ...

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

A research team from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel DNA origami-based technique to synthesize stable, monolithic amorphous silver nanostructures under ...

1 Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riß, Germany 2 Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany Wave bioreactors have a high volume-to-surface ratio, but aeration relies ...