For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how ...

WITH a celebrity following that includes Selena Gomez, Harry Styles and Margot Robbie, it’s easy why reformer Pilates is one ...

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Scientists have acquired direct evidence of rare, pulsing pear-shaped structures within atomic nuclei of the rare-earth element Gadolinium, thanks to new research.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

Scientists have found a new way to navigate beams of light through dynamic scattering media, such as the turbulent atmosphere ...

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China, home to one of the world's most ancient civilisations, has been under communist rule since 1949, when it was founded as the People's Republic of China. It boasts the world's second-largest ...

While many expensive things have useful, revenue-generating purposes, some of the world’s most expensive objects seem to make less sense. Artist Damien Hirst created “The Physical ...