Billions of alkaline-loving microbes could offer a new way to protect nuclear waste buried deep underground. This approach ...

Professor Neil Thurman and Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri from the Department of Media and Communication (IfKW) at LMU have ...

Why does plastic turn brittle and paint fade when exposed to the sun for long periods? Scientists have long known that such ...

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, ...

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Center of New Technologies, ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

It is used in imaging processes and also shows potential for cancer therapy. However, it does not occur naturally and must be ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT has arrived in classrooms and sparked an intense debate about its ...

There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam have developed a material ...