Eighty years ago, Penn researchers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly launched the age of electronic computing by harnessing ...

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new research led by University of Michigan Engineering revealed that soil ...

NQR enzyme is vital for energy production in pathogenic bacteria like the one that causes cholera, making it a highly ...

Over the past decade, cities around the world have increasingly turned to nature-based infrastructure to become more ...

Climate change is widely understood as an environmental and economic threat, but new research from the University of Sydney shows it is also a growing social crisis, weakening the relationships people ...

Every human cell is surrounded by a sugar coating known as the glycocalyx. It not only interacts with its environment but also reveals a great deal about cells' internal states. Scientists at the Max ...

Environmental conservation is one of the most pressing debates across the world. For decades, it has often been viewed as a ...

University of Delaware geologist Jessica Warren has contributed to research that brings us one step closer to better ...

Ultrasonic tracking in Hiroshima Bay shows that male and female black sea bream move differently during the spawning season, ...

Scientists, including those working with the Earth Commission, are calling for a fundamental rethink of how the world ...

Finding highly venomous box jellyfish that are almost invisible in water is not an easy task—but researching them is crucial so that we can learn how to safely avoid them. Stings from these "sea-wasps ...

Controlling heat flow is a major challenge for many technologies. In electronic and photonic devices, for example, heat ...