With a carefully designed experiment and a handful of tin atoms, University of Tennessee, Knoxville's physicists have found a ...

New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously ...

A new wave of research is questioning the long-dominant Mendelian model of inheritance still taught in schools. Scientists argue that most traits are influenced by many genes and environmental factors ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us. A 400-million-year-old ammonite cross-section reveals an interior world of remarkable ...

The Phlegraean Fields volcanic complex, located beneath the metropolitan area of Naples—a city of 900,000 inhabitants in Italy—has been rising increasingly since 2005, accompanied by a growing number ...

View of Naples from the Hermitage of Camaldoli with Mt. Vesuvius, Gulf of Naples, Sorrento Peninsula and the Eastern edge of Campi Flegrei. Taken whilst setting up measuring stations. The Phlegraean ...

In a development that could shift our basic understanding of fluid mechanics, researchers from Drexel University have reported that, given the right circumstances, it is possible to induce a simple ...

Researchers have investigated the communication between two insect species, and what they discovered seems straight out of Tarzan. Some butterfly caterpillars vibrate in an unexpectedly complex ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Each year, millions of Americans move from one state to another, creating migration patterns that are far more complex than simple lists of where people are coming from or going to. Using traditional ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...