Neural tissue normally dies quickly without oxygen. Yet bird retinas—among the most energy-demanding tissues in the animal ...

Bird retinas survive without oxygen by burning sugar scientists solve 300 year mystery that could help treat human strokes.

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their remarkable ability to survive these conditions could offer a key model for rese ...

Perovskite solar cells have long been the most exciting “almost there” technology in clean ...

Biologists have finally solved a centuries-old mystery regarding how birds maintain sharp eyesight despite ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

It has been revealed that simply twisting and stacking two layers of oxide crystals can allow the atomic arrangement itself ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts electricity. This unusual form is believed to shape the magnetic fields of ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

A new computational framework maps 3D atomic positions in amorphous materials, achieving full accuracy for silica using ...

Rolling MXene sheets into scrolls at gram scale yields 33-fold conductivity gains and superconductivity at 5.2 K absent in ...