This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

Earlier research from Amato’s lab found that gut microbes from primates with larger brains produce more energy when ...

Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but this study reframes them as potent regulators of the ocean’s ...

Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...

Alex Marson of Gladstone and his collaborators at Stanford University developed a genomic mapping technique that helps close ...

(Left) Broken-out sectional view of the energy-harvesting bracelet, in which magnets moving through copper coils generate a voltage. (Right) Photo of the bracelet. Credit: Wu et al. ©2017 American ...

Metastability arises from the finite lifetime of a state when a lower-energy configuration is possible but can only be reached by tunneling through an energy barrier. This phenomenon is observed in ...

Lucid dreams occur when a person is aware they are dreaming while still in the dream state. This phenomenon happens during REM sleep and has numerous potential applications, from solving physiological ...

Scientists recognize that sleep habits may be associated with various diseases; however, most research relies on individuals’ self-reports, which can be subject to inaccuracies. A new study used ...

For the first time in history, carbon dioxide concentrations have surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm) during their seasonal peak, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Imagine a type of matter where particles are arranged in a neat crystal pattern but can flow without friction. This peculiar state is called a supersolid, requiring particles to share a common phase ...