By emulating nature's design principles a team of engineers has created nanodevices made of DNA that self-assemble and can be programmed to move and change shape on demand

A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image -- one of the largest ever released of a star-forming region

The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material -- silicon -- for the first time

The European Space Agency's Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth

Cosmologists at UCL are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space

Scientists say that the trigger, at least initially, was an orbital shift that caused more sunlight to fall across Earth's northern half. But how did the south catch up so fast?

Minerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally, not just in the south

Using two of the world's largest telescopes, an international team of astronomers have found evidence of a collision between galaxies driving intense activity in a highly luminous quasar

An Australian National University-led team has developed the most efficient quantum memory for light in the world, taking us closer to a future of super-fast computers and communication secured by the laws of physics

For the first time, a team of astronomers has succeeded in investigating the earliest phases of the evolutionary history of our home Galaxy