Professor James Nieh compares the waggle dance to a musician’s performance. With a large audience, the performer concentrates on the music. With fewer listeners, they scan faces and adjust their ...

It drinks water from the soil and lifts it into the sky, defying gravity. Scientists refer to this as “negative water potential.” This is a type of invisible tension that allows plants to draw water ...

An artist's impression shows the giant spiral galaxy NGC 1365 as it collides and merges with a smaller companion galaxy, ...

The findings from scientists at the University of Utah challenge long-held beliefs about how water acts beneath terminal lakes. Freshwater seems to move beneath the lake toward it ...

Molecular clouds, which are dense areas of gas and dust, are the birthplace of stars. Gravity pulls on material, drawing it ...

But scientists have debated for decades when this shift began. Some theories suggest that Earth’s crust was a single, rigid shell before it was shattered. A new study has uncovered the oldest evidence ...

A specially designed chamber that converts visible light into vacuum ultraviolet light in a new laser. (Credit: Kapteyn-Murnane Group) For decades, scientists have struggled to create lasers that ...

Species like the Burmese python can consume massive prey and then go months without eating. After feeding, their bodies ...

Now, scientists have made a significant advancement. In a breakthrough that seems closer to science fiction than surgery, scientists have created a working segment of the esophagus. This marks a major ...

Every year, millions of tons of sulfur quietly pile up as waste from petroleum refining. For decades, this yellow element has ...

A recent line of inquiry explores how atomic systems behave when immersed in curved spacetime, particularly under the influence of gravitational waves. In a new study, scientists show that ...

Microplastics have been increasingly detected in the human body, raising major concerns about their health effects. In response, scientists have considered ways to safely detach these particles, and ...