A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...

The development of an embryo is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. Early in this process, it is determined ...

Georgia Tech researchers demonstrated the mechanics behind neural tube closure, which can lead to severe or fatal birth ...

Electron spin can create differences between mirror-image molecules, a potential explanation for why life favors one ...

Professor of Theoretical Physics Risto Paatelainen from the University of Turku in Finland has spent nearly ten years working ...

Cleaner air is making marine clouds dimmer and oceans warmer, revealing a climate trade-off called the "clean air paradox." ...

The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a funnel at the ...

University of Iowa researchers have found that using quantum dots could yield more efficient telecommunications and may ...

A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information keep living systems organized and therefore alive ...

A stellar explosion with subtle hints of a black hole binary in the background. (Courtesy: Carl Knox, OzGrav – Swinburne University of Technology) Predictions that black holes cannot form within a ...

Teleportation sounds clean until the machinery gets involved. A person steps into a chamber, presses a button, and appears ...

“It is astonishing that human beings can measure anything to such precision,” says Tsutomu Mibe, a particle physicist at ...