Laboratory researchers have posited an explanation for superconductivity that may open the door to the discovery of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity....

'Firefly' CubeSat Mission to Study Lightning's Link to Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes...

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Science Network (ESnet) has just completed hardware installations for the nation's first dynamic circuit network dedicated solely to scientific research...

New work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies reveals how a genetic switch, known as FoxJ1, helps developing embryos tell their left from their right. While at first glance the right and left ...

Achieves Another Significant Milestone...

X-ray and gamma-ray data from ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral orbiting observatories has been used to test, for the first time, the physical processes that make magnetars, an atypical class of neutr...

Call it the bullet train of enzymes. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have found that HIV reverse transcriptase exhibits a stunning display of enzymatic dynamics as it zooms back and...

Brain cells can adopt a new chemical code in response to cues from the outside world, scientists working with tadpoles at the University of California, San Diego report in the journal Nature this week...

The key to understanding Earth's evolution, including how our atmosphere gained oxygen and how volcanoes and earthquakes form, is to look deep, really deep, into the lower mantle -- a region some ...

Uncertain as to how phytoplankton -- microscopic marine plants on which much of ocean life depends -- would respond to Arctic sea ice decline, researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to sh...