After a slight delay, Australia and Papua New Guinea formally signed a defense treaty this week committing the two nations to ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new ...

Nobel chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born to Palestinian refugees in Jordan, a quiet, studious child in a "large, rowdy ...

Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry for discovering a new form of molecular architecture: ...

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool can help researchers determine how well an enzyme fits with a desired target, ...

A research team led by Prof. Ben Ko Chi-bun, Associate Professor of the PolyU Department of Applied Biology and Chemical ...

The trade of totoaba has all the intrigue of a crime thriller. Dollars and drugs change hands as a criminal cartel vies ...

Stress granules are droplet-like protein hubs that temporarily shield fragile RNA from cellular stresses such as toxins. VCP ...

Each year, U.S. wastewater treatment plants clean trillions of gallons of water, from what we flush down the toilet to drain ...

For years we've been warned that technological advances and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to sweep people out of work.

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat ...