Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle describes one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics: certain pairs of physical quantities describing a particle, such as position and ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

In a new study, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have resolved a longstanding mystery by showing how epithelial tissues exhibit slow-moving, glass-like behavior despite their fast ...

IN THE 1670s, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered through a homemade microscope and reported tiny life forms, what he called ...

Scientists say they have developed the world's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle, built entirely from ...

대한민국 과학기술인상 7월 수상자로 노성훈 서울대 생명과학부 교수가 선정됐다. 세포 기능에 필수적인 세포골격 재생 시스템을 규명해 노화와 신경퇴행성 질환 극복 기반을 마련한 성과를 인정받았다. 과학기술정보통신부와 ...

For centuries, humanity has wrestled with a profound question: what truly separates non-living matter from actual, breathing ...

An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet Earth we live on today bears very few traces of its infancy. The 500 million ...

Alyssa Radakovich, Frank Yang and colleagues identify around 200 potential quinones in burned plant material, advancing ...

Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of ...

New research finally explains statin muscle pain at the molecular level. Learn what happens in your muscles, how serious it ...

Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...