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Humans have long approached plants from a utilitarian perspective—primarily as sources of food or raw materials. But researchers at Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology (CHE) are exploring a different kind of relationship, one that views plants not as tools but as companions. Through an inn...

A fossilized true cicada has been described for the first time from Germany’s Messel Pit, offering valuable insight into the evolutionary history of one of the most species-rich insect families. The newly identified species, Eoplatypleura messelensis, is not only one of the oldest known true cicadas...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and a team from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have created the most comprehensive evolutionary tree of birds to date, charting the relationships among every known bird species. Drawing from nearly 300 studies published between 1990 and 2024, the researchers combined da...

A mathematical physicist from RIKEN, in collaboration with a researcher from the University of Amsterdam, has derived an exact expression for a fundamental process critical to many quantum technologies. This breakthrough could provide important theoretical guidance for the future development of quan...

A team of researchers from UNIST has developed a groundbreaking algorithm for detecting collisions of high-speed particles in nuclear fusion reactors, drawing inspiration from technology used in video games to determine whether bullets hit targets. This innovation enables rapid collision prediction ...

One of the biggest mysteries in physics is understanding how the universe's heaviest elements, such as uranium and plutonium, are created. In a groundbreaking study, a team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers is exploring an uncharted territory: the jets and cocoons formed during gamma...

The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) holds immense promise for producing clean hydrogen fuel, offering a potential solution to the climate change crisis. However, scaling HER from a laboratory process to large-scale commercial production while keeping costs manageable remains a major challenge. Res...

The intensification of global agriculture has led to massive waste production, including an estimated 14 billion tons of crop straw and 125 million tons of livestock manure annually. Traditional composting methods often fall short due to poor breakdown of lignocellulose and the persistence of harmfu...

The 166-million-year-old reptile Marmoretta oxoniensis has long been thought to have lived a semi-aquatic lifestyle, swimming through ancient lagoons. But new research is turning that idea on its head—literally. Using cutting-edge scanning technologies, scientists now believe Marmoretta was a tree-d...

Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are ultra-small semiconductor crystals, just a few nanometers wide, synthesized in liquid solutions. These single-crystal particles, formed through chemical and physical breakdown of bulk materials, hold significant promise for photovoltaic (PV) technology due to their ...