In rowing, "catching a crab" is when an oar gets stuck in the water, stopping the boat's momentum. Progress toward gender equality in the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race has followed a similar rhythm, ...

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...

Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, ...

The Trump administration, pursuing its deeply skeptical approach to climate change, wants to severely cut back the research ...

Recent physics studies have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons, which are subatomic positively charged ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research have developed an innovative system called MetaFlowTrain ...

Tropical cyclones are hurricanes that brew over the tropical ocean and can travel over land, inundating coastal regions. The ...

A team of CiRA researchers has uncovered the crucial role of EIF3D—a protein translational regulator—in primed pluripotency.

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean.

The manufacturing and deployment of hybrid and electric vehicles is on the rise, contributing to ongoing efforts to ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists ...