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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the ...

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