Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast to create beer and wine from grains and fruits. What are the biological mechanisms behind this alcohol production? Aa Aa Aa ...

Solar modules treated with lead carboxylate passed the standard test of photovoltaic reliability and had a high yield.

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Single-crystalline β-phase gallium oxide can be thinned down to a thickness of just half a unit cell using a self-limiting exfoliation process, where ...

Boron carbide, also known as 'black diamond', is one of the hardest synthetic substances known. Credit: Science Museum ...

The PsychAD Consortium investigates the biological mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease, ...

Variations in day length that occur on multidecadal timescales are caused by gravitational coupling between Earth’s inner core and its solid mantle.

A fruit-fly protein thought only to store amino acids in fact responds to nutritional deficiency in both development and adulthood, resulting in lifespan extension.

A landmark collection of bat genomes reveals fresh clues about the evolution of one of the world’s most unusual groups of mammals.

Analysis of anonymized banking data could help inform strategies to support victim-survivors of financial abuse — plus, how opposing forces within the Earth can alter the length of a day.