Since we last spoke, researchers at the University of Birmingham have defined the precise shape of a single photon (spoiler: ...

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects on black hole thermodynamics and geometry, focusing on ...

On March 2, 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale.

Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It's the process through which research ends up published in an academic ...

The term "social distancing" spread out across the public vocabulary in recent years as people around the world changed ...

Fierce bargaining at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan dragged into Saturday after a $250 billion a year offer from rich nations ...

Protons and neutrons–known collectively as nucleons–are both the building blocks of matter, but one of these particles has ...

New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Some sequences in the genome cause genes to be switched on or off. Until now, each of these gene switches, or so-called ...