Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these neighborhoods naturally...
Health care providers who counsel their patients about firearm safety and prevention could prevent future injury or death, including suicides,...
From search-and-rescue missions to orthopedic therapy and many other applications, soft robots and wearable electronic devices show great promise for...
Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own “undecipherable” coded languages. In a new study published...
Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a...
The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation...
Tests on Earth appear to confirm how the red planet’s spider-shaped geologic formations are carved by carbon dioxide. Since discovering...
Photonic applications harness the power of light-matter interactions to generate various intriguing phenomena. This has enabled major advances in communications,...
Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary...
Concerns about the environmental impact of health care decisions rarely enter into conversations between patients and physicians. However, evidence from...
Imagine a set of flexible tactile sensors that adheres to the surface of your skin, offering customizable detection of biomechanical...
