Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ...

When children are dropped off at a school or daycare for the first time, there can be a lot of feelings and sometimes ...

More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms ...

Much of the world's lithium occurs in salty waters with fundamentally different chemistry than other naturally saline waters ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously ...

Hold out your hands, palms up, and move them so they are on top of each other. With a little experimentation—and perhaps a ...

Most anti-human trafficking efforts focus on breaking up sex sales. However, new research in the journal Manufacturing & ...

A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star ...

Blue phosphorescent OLEDs can now last as long as the green phosphorescent OLEDs already in devices, University of Michigan ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...