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Observations of the formation of light-nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter.

Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games quickly reappear on kitchen tables. Games provide opportunities for learning mathematics actively.

What if it were possible to take a very slow geological process, one that takes thousands of years in nature, and speed it up so that it happens within hours, in order to slow the rate of global warming?

A joint research team has developed a highly efficient photocatalyst that can convert carbon dioxide into the high-value-added fuel, methane, using sunlight, while explaining its operating principles. The work is published ...

Vegetarian and vegan diets can support healthy growth when carefully planned with appropriate supplementation, finds a major new meta-analysis—the most comprehensive study to date of plant-based diets in children.

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This "tension-sensing" mechanism ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this longstanding goal by bombarding ...

Much of the heavy rains that hit the Philippines during the Amihan northeast monsoon season between November and March are triggered by "shear lines": kilometers-long bands of converging warm and cold air that are constantly ...

The Jahn-Teller effect, proposed by Jahn and Teller in 1937, describes how molecules or crystals with degenerate electronic orbitals can lower their total energy by distorting their structure. This distortion lifts the degeneracy, ...

Children with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma which hasn't responded to initial treatment or that has relapsed may benefit from adding antibody treatment to usual chemotherapy, according to new results from a clinical ...

Blocking reproduction increases lifespan in both males and females of many different species, a new international University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study has found.

A single signaling pathway controls whether immune cells attack or befriend cells they encounter while patrolling our bodies, researchers at Stanford Medicine have found. Manipulating this pathway could allow researchers ...