Deep in the mountains of Central Europe, a small, evergreen clubmoss known as Huperzia selago has become the unlikely star of a study that could change how biologists assess fertility in some of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Familiar things can look very strange when viewed under a microscope. (Steve Gschmeissner/SPL/Getty Images) If you're a reader of ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost, origami-inspired microscope called the Foldscope. The device costs just pennies to produce and can provide up to 2,000x magnification. Scientists and educators ...

In 2016, a team of French physicists sent an ultra-sensitive, drag-free satellite called MICROSCOPE into space to study a 100-year old theory of Einstein’s that could change everything we know about ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples that a ...

In new studies published in Physical Review Letters and a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity on September 14, a team of researchers present the most precise test yet of the Weak ...

France’s Microscope satellite, carrying a set of ESA high-tech thrusters, lifted off last night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, taking advantage of the same Soyuz launch that took ...

Free falling Artist's impression of the MICROSCOPE satellite. (Courtesy: CNES) The equality of inertial and gravitational mass central to Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been confirmed at ...

Researchers present the most precise test yet of the weak equivalence principle, a key component of the theory of general relativity. The report describes the final results from the MICROSCOPE mission ...