Researchers at Texas A&M are designing the blueprint for sustained human presence, and settlement, on the moon. Future lunar construction sites may look like scenes from a science fiction movie: ...

Estelle Couradeau, Penn State assistant professor of soils and environmental microbiology, right, and two former members of her research group, postdoctoral scholar Raul Roman and lab technician ...

When bean plants sense a caterpillar eating their leaves, they release gases that invite predatory wasps to help defend them.

DEET has been one of the most effective insect repellents for the past 80 years, but there could be a chink in the ...

Previously unknown navigation mechanism: pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using iron-rich immune cells in their livers, a quantum effect. Navigation experiments: removing iron-containing ...

An international team involving Graz University of Technology has investigated how heavy machinery can be operated more safely using extended reality applications. In the process, a disco laser outdid ...

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience [1] by researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea shows that the Antarctic ice sheet ...

A popular sodium-ion battery designed by the company Hina and used in cars and large-scale energy storage systems in China matches performance parameters and production quality of Tesla’s lithium-ion ...

Researchers have developed a design principle enabling the creation of complex patterns on silicon chips by way of microfabrication. Thanks to these patterns, vibrations follow predetermined paths. A ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots respond to everyday health-related questions from general users with nearly 76% accuracy, which raises concerns about their trustworthiness in real-world ...

A new report from Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) finds that industrial insect farming in temperate, high-income countries may not be the climate solution it is often portrayed to be. Its ...

Chronic oral inflammation may impair female fertility by triggering a systemic immune response that affects the ovaries. A new study shows this leads to oxidative damage, reduced egg quality, ...