A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates ...

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The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

Scientific research is at the heart of Israel’s success and has worldwide benefits. Our work will continue despite adversity.

The manure of farmyard animals such as pigs is a major source of antibiotic-resistance genes, which can pose a risk to human ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

The odd flower The cover captures a close-up of a flower on the dog rose Rosa canina. There is something odd about the way the various species of dog rose reproduce — they flout the standard ...

Tree cover gains in the moist tropics (1982–2015) were 56% naturally regenerated forests and 27% managed tree systems, with forest type influencing carbon recovery. Effective forest restoration ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

An analysis of mpox virus genomes from individuals infected between 2018 and 2023 has provided insights into how the virus ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...