Earth's inner core, composed primarily of iron with a small percentage of light elements, may enter a superionic state at ...

A sea of corrugated metal roofs stretches into the distance across an informal settlement in Makassar, Indonesia.

Long polymer chains are everywhere: in synthetic materials, soft matter, biological systems such as chromosomes, and mathematical models of filaments and knots. When many such chains are densely ...

Quasiparticles arise from the complex interaction of many particles in solids; for example, we describe lattice vibrations in ...

Once a cell has locked into an abnormal state—the way cancer cells do—can it ever be restored to normal? A KAIST research ...

Why do some lakes remain plagued by harmful algal blooms even after phosphorus pollution has been reduced? Part of the answer ...

This year's El Niño weather pattern will be the biggest in more than a century and could make 2027 the hottest year globally, ...

In the vast, nutrient-poor regions of the world's oceans, there is a constant struggle for survival. Yet tiny organisms known as Collodaria have thrived there for millions of years. These Collodaria ...

Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon are California's most endangered salmon, with a single surviving population and an ...

Seismic waves produced by thunderstorms, called thunderquakes, can be used as a novel source for seismic imaging, according ...

If a remotely operated oil tanker causes a spill, the shipowner remains responsible for compensating victims under existing ...

In April 1917, the German submarine UC-30 sailed beneath the waves off the coast of Rømø. It had originally been on a mission ...