Science & Technology

A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, ‘hydration solids.’ The new findings emerged from ongoing research into the strange behavior of spores, dormant bacterial cells.

Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion years ago. They differed from complex eukaryotic life as we know it, such as animals, plants and algae in …

Researchers used data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to explain how the solar wind is capable of surpassing speeds of 1 million miles per hour. They discovered that the energy released from the magnetic field near the sun’s surface is powerful enough t…

‘Meaning of manual labor’ causes consumers to reject autonomous products.

While studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence the objects may have been erroneously typecast as simple. The new observations detected non-therma…

Shallow lakes and ponds emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but emissions from these systems vary considerably and are not well understood.

A simple sponge has improved how robots grasp, scientists have found.