Scientists at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia, have discovered that the protein CENP-E, long believed ...

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At first glance, the tiny plastic pellets appear relatively harmless. No bigger than a lentil, these "nurdles" are destined ...

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid ...

Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean—ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical ...

A study led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Professor Alexandre Rosado has revealed an unusual ...

For years, we believed the Himalayas were a climatic sanctuary—untouched, pristine, and resilient to the turbulence of ...

When most people hear terms like poaching, wildlife trafficking or illegal wildlife trade, they probably think of threatened ...

Sometimes, less really is more. By removing oxygen during synthesis, a team led by materials scientists at Penn State has ...

When machine learning is used to suggest new potential scientific insights or directions, algorithms sometimes offer ...