Category: Science

By U.S. Department of Energy May 8, 2022Systems biology studies how different living organisms at many scales interact.Microbes, plants, animals, and entire ecosystems all play individual roles in the natural...

The intelligent metasurface, AI-empowered artificial material, is a smart platform enabling various functions such as data mining, communication, energy harvest, and sensing by directly processing illuminated information-carrying waves on the...

Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands’ Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest. Credit: Edwin PareeWetlands are Earth’s most efficient...

From left to right, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthais Maurer, NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard...

Parachutes slow the descent of the Dragon Endurance spacecraft carrying NASA and ESA astronauts from the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. Credit: NASANASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft safely...

The new multi-organ chip has the size of a glass microscope slide and allows the culture of up to four human engineered tissues, whose location and number can be tailored...

PNNL chemical engineer Jian Liu observes laboratory equipment used to extract rare earth elements from various water sources. This magnetic separation loop system works in tandem with tiny, magnetic particles...

The CAPSTONE mission is planned for launch no earlier than May 2022. Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus will deliver CAPSTONE into a trajectory toward the Moon. Credit: Illustration by NASA/Daniel...

By Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology May 6, 2022Artistic reconstruction of mating position in Olenoides serratus. Credit: Holly SullivanFossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal...

New research suggests that being overweight or having obesity amplifies the harmful effects of alcohol on the risk of developing alcohol-related cancer, particularly in people with a high body fat...