A new study by Chester Zoo and Nottingham Trent University scientists revealed that just over a third (38%) of more than 230 ...

A new approach that changes just one atom in plastic-degrading enzymes could help make them more efficient while maintaining ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the tasks people do at work and the skills they need. As work changes, being able to ...

Ancient Chinese authorities used many creative ways to punish people, often with methods designed to mark them for life. One ...

Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid ...

People with power are more quickly singled out as the culprit when something goes wrong but it is unclear who made the ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron ...

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in ...

Each summer, researchers from Hokkaido University returned to the Qaanaaq Ice Cap in northwestern Greenland to measure ...

Despite the rapid development of generative AI and the high level of public interest, the use of AI in the day-to-day work of ...

Researchers have engineered a new material that is an extreme thermal insulator, is exceptionally stiff and can be printed as ...

Magnetic reconnection is a process that occurs when the magnetic fields of a conductive plasma quickly rearrange and release ...