Apatite. Rhymes with appetite, and fittingly, plays a vital role in the very act of eating. Found in teeth and bones, apatite ...

A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin.

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs ...

How did life leap from simple microbial cells to the complex, structured cells that make up animals, plants, and fungi? A new ...

A research team has developed a nanobody-based technology that can precisely identify and attack only lung cancer cells, ...

Early in the pandemic, most research, including our own, focused on designing drugs that could block the virus's spike ...

Features of spaceflight such as gravitational changes and circadian rhythm disruption—not to mention radiation—take a toll on ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for ...

Research by Royal Holloway has found people with a varied social life mentally put their daily experiences into small "events ...

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly.