Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis.They have characterised an enzy… [+2627 chars]
An “anti-universe” where time runs backwards could exist next to ours, according to a new study. The theory involves the fact nature has fundamental symmetries and researchers think this could apply… [+2136 chars]
“There is an international race to identify the best platform for controlling and processing quantum information for quantum computers, where superconductors play a prominent role,” says Duc Phan, Ph… [+3071 chars]
A piece of space junk crash-landed on the Moon's far side on March 4, 2022 (Credit: ESA.Int) A school-bus-sized object, which has been orbiting in space at about 5,600 miles per hour since 2014, cra… [+2183 chars]
A lot has changed since humans first landed on the Moon. When the first space boot prints were left on the lunar surface, people were hooked to their television sets as grainy footage of the Apollo… [+3783 chars]
Percy is making tracks in this image from March 17, 2022. NASA/JPL-Caltech This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. There's a childlike joy to running flat out t… [+2277 chars]
Research from the Francis Crick Institute has revealed a key mechanism which increases tolerance to drugs amongst microbial communities. The findings could help the development of more effective anti… [+3824 chars]
Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new tool that could lead to more efficient and cheaper technologies for capturing heat-trapping gases from the atmosphere and conve… [+4262 chars]
image: Schematic of the remote magnon-magnon coupling circuit. Two single-crystal YIG spheres are embedded to the NbN coplanar superconducting resonator circuit, where microwave photon mediates coher… [+5312 chars]
For the first time, physicists have confirmed a weird quantum phenomenon in which tiny particles, when nudged out of place, will snap right back to where they came from. The strange behavior, called… [+6880 chars]
image: Schematic of the remote magnon-magnon coupling circuit. Two single-crystal YIG spheres are embedded to the NbN coplanar superconducting resonator circuit, where microwave photon mediates coher… [+5312 chars]
Introducing self-evolving RNA created by scientists at the University of Tokyo. It offers insights into how simple biological molecules can lead to the emergence of complex lifelike systems. This se… [+2450 chars]