A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

Weaver ants’ feet have an incredibly strong grip—individual members of one species can, without slipping, hold an entire dead bird hanging off the edge of a table. And the mighty insects rarely work ...

While type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease in the UK – affecting around 90% of people with diabetes – other forms of diabetes exist, including those with autoimmune, genetic or ...

Quick confession: This is my favorite time of year. I love all of it. In Pennsylvania, the leaves are just starting to turn colors. It’s turning cooler which means that I can open the windows and dig ...

Prime numbers are essential for technologies like RSA encryption, which rely on the difficulty of guessing these numerals. A new paper shows that another area of mathematics called integer partition ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

A complex form of carbon crucial for life on Earth has been spotted outside the solar system for the first time. Its presence helps show how the compounds needed for life could come from space. The ...

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