Rotifers viral "chainsaw mouth" is actually a corona of beating cilia, not a spinning jaw; the real grinder is a hidden ...

A sweeping review finds micro- and nanoplastics throughout human tissues and plausible mechanisms of harm, while cautioning ...

When you run your fingers through wet hair, it catches and feels rough only at the ends. When dry, the roots feel smooth, but ...

(Valerii Stoika/Canva) You read a sentence, remember a familiar face, then turn to another thought. Behind all of that activity, your brain also has a housekeeping problem: what to do with proteins ...

When wildfire smoke fills the air, most people can go inside to avoid it. Wildlife does not have that option, and little is ...

Animals seem to appear in the fossil record fairly suddenly, a little over half a billion years ago. Yet rocks can preserve ...

Laser-sail experiments test a route to nearby stars, while research reveals major barriers to interstellar missions.

Forty years after explosions scattered radioactive debris from Chernobyl’s reactor across the surrounding landscape, ...

When a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic velocities, its protective heat shield faces extreme conditions, ...

Weak molecular connections allow protein building blocks to separate, try again, and eventually lock into the stable ...

Lab developed a solid-state battery technology that removes the substrate, raising energy density to 500-750 Wh/L, up to 10 ...

A small amount of a porous material could help batteries deliver more energy from thicker electrodes. Researchers in South ...