For over one hundred years, students have learned that during mitosis, a parent cell becomes spherical before dividing into two daughter cells of the same size and shape. A new study, however ...

US study finds nanoplastics absorb heavy metal ions, could lead to. severe health issues. Researchers have revealed that ...

Led by biologists Shane Herbert and Holly Lovegrove of the University of Manchester, a team of researchers found that cells do not always divide into two identical, spherical shapes. The shape of ...

By Friday, all indications pointed to a reentry early Saturday morning, U.S. Eastern Time, give or take several hours.

The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian ...

Scientists have observed an explosion 180 million light years away that is unlike anything seen before. Rather than forming a typical spherical shape, the blast was flat — so flat that it has become ...

This makes the surface of the slide more water repellent, and the result is that water droplets stay in a spherical dome shape instead of flattening out. By placing droplets of different sizes on ...