The Regional Cabled Array spans the entire Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, from the Oregon coast to the summit of Axial Seamount 300 miles offshore. Credit: University of Washington Axial Seamount, an ...

Oscar Larrainzar, a 41-year-old father of four, had a non-functioning bladder and had both kidneys removed due to renal cancer in the setting of pre-existing end-stage kidney disease. As a result, he ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, renowned for exploring Jupiter’s mysteries, faced an unexpected hiccup during its 71st close approach to the gas giant on April 4. Twice in one day, the solar-powered ...

High blood pressure impacts over 30% of adults worldwide and is a major cause of heart disease, stroke, kidney problems, and even dementia. When blood pressure is high, we are often told to cut back ...

Professor Shelly Zhang, center, joined by fellow researchers Rahul Dev Kundu, left, and Shi Zhao, right, have developed a synthetic multi-layered material where each layer responds to stress ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. Credit: Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley A new catalytic process ...

Phonons are energy waves that travel through crystal lattices via atomic vibrations. Often compared to ripples in a pond, phonons play a vital role in optoelectronic applications and tunable photonic ...

The researchers demonstrated the membrane’s performance in lab-scale experiments, pictured, using a novel membrane to filter various solutions that were similar in content to the waste streams ...

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our nearest galactic ...

The question “Are we alone in the Universe?” has been a philosophical topic for thousands of years. Only recently has modern science started to provide solid hypotheses and evidence to address it.

This image shows five newly discovered superstructures. Quipu (red) is the largest structure ever found in the universe. The others are Shapley (blue), Serpens-Corona Borealis (green), Hercules ...

The disappearance of Arctic sea ice that has been observed is a sign of human-caused climate change. With further warming, these declines are expected to continue and eventually result in an Arctic ...