Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria allows us ...

Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications.

The professional world has no shortage of micromanagers—or, as Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Several months later, the U.S. sent Explorer I into space. With two small objects ...

Proteins form the structural and functional backbone of the cell, and any perturbation in their synthesis can disrupt normal ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

As NASA prepares to return to the moon, studying astronaut health and safety is a top priority. Scientists monitor and ...

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful ...