From the beloved Tama, Japan’s stationmaster calico cat, to Garfield, the world-famous lasagna enthusiast, orange-colored felines have long captured hearts and imaginations. But behind their ...

The thin mycelial film is almost transparent and has good tensile strength. It could be used as a living bioplastic. Picture: Empa Biodegradable materials are the future, but they often come at a cost ...

Foams absorb liquids, making them useful for cleaning, oil recovery, and mineral extraction. Scientists used to think their absorption was controlled by osmotic pressure, but real-world tests show ...

Laser-driven ion acceleration has long been a powerful tool, capable of generating extreme energies in an instant. It has been hailed for applications ranging from cancer treatment to semiconductor ...

Professor Shelly Zhang, center, joined by fellow researchers Rahul Dev Kundu, left, and Shi Zhao, right, have developed a synthetic multi-layered material where each layer responds to stress ...

For decades, cosmologists believed the universe’s final moments were unfathomably distant—so far in the future that even theoretical estimates stretched beyond comprehension. However, new calculations ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare — seen as the bright flash on the left – on May 14. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the ...

These images of Titan were taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on July 11, 2023 (top row) and the ground-based W.M. Keck Observatories on July 14, 2023 (bottom row). They show methane clouds ...

Joint quantum measurements are essential in quantum theory but not well understood. A key question is whether measurements on separate systems can be done without physically combining them.

NASA’s ultra-clean spacecraft assembly rooms are designed to be virtually sterile, yet resilient microbes manage to survive even in these extreme environments. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

On December 31, 2023, India’s Aditya-L1 solar mission recorded a groundbreaking event—a powerful X-class solar flare erupting from the Sun’s surface, accompanied by a rapidly accelerating plasma blob.

Lunar soil contains tiny glass beads formed in two ways: volcanic activity and asteroid impacts. Volcanic beads come from lava fire fountains, while impact glasses result from asteroid collisions that ...