Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Scientists have discovered previously unknown "onion-like" nanoparticles in jet engine exhaust that could pose new health ...

Learn how a trio of scientists do the math, based on a Stephen Hawking theory, and even ask how long it would take for a ...

Plastic pollution also affects the ecosystems beneath the soil. Earthworms exposed to microplastics exhibit stunted growth, impaired reproduction, and internal damage. Insects like springtails avoid ...

Desert air coolers are specifically designed to work on the principle of evaporation, thus making them suitable for regions ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Are black holes a real threat to Earth and humanity? These cosmic giants are ready to consume everything in its way, and not ...

Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

"The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time," Heino ...

“Using gravitational curvature radiation, we find that also neutron stars and white dwarfs decay in a finite time in the ...