A new method could help quantum computers avoid one of their most persistent problems: the hardware itself is unevenly noisy, ...

A hidden geological wall beneath one of Australia’s largest iron-ore regions is forcing scientists to rethink how groundwater moves through ...

The Bosporus Strait may be doing far more than shuttling water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. ...

A five-month soil experiment has revealed that the fate of carbon buried beneath our feet depends on a surprisingly specific ...

The world’s urban water systems are entering an era in which failure can no longer be understood as a single ...

Earthquake-resistant buildings may soon gain a new layer of protection from an unusual alliance of materials operating across three different ...

A protein famous for preventing cancer may also help explain why the immune system turns against the body in rheumatoid ...

Kirsten Falk, a German scientist whose early experiments helped reveal how the immune system identifies infected cells, has been remembered ...

A genetically engineered yeast is producing a laboratory-made version of human type III collagen that folds into the same distinctive ...

Bread wheat’s genomic “dark matter” has come into sharper focus in a new analysis that maps thousands of repetitive DNA ...