Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence.

A long-quiet fault in Canada is building toward a major earthquake. The only problem? No one knows when it will strike.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

Scientists in Austria have achieved what sounds impossible: making time run backward—but only at the quantum level.

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract.

Venus and Jupiter will meet in a conjunction in the early morning hours of Aug. 12. Here's everything you need to know to spot the two brightest planets at their best.

Typically a risk to those over 65, more young people are suffering strokes, studies show.

The robot is making leaps toward the future of planetary exploration.

The most striking images from the world of science this week: including an anniversary on Mars, a maze of 1.5 million books, and apes with a taste for alcoholic fruit.

A brainstem region helps punctuate memories. Stress may block its ability to mark new experiences. Although life unfolds in a continuous flow, our memories don’t capture it that way. We don’t recall the past as one seamless timeline but rather as a sequence o…

A new study reveals a surprising connection between Vincent van Gogh’s "The Starry Night" and the world of quantum physics.

On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, Earth completed its rotation slightly more slowly than usual, making the day fractionally longer. While the difference was imperceptible to people, scientists say the cause offers important clues about the forces influencing our pl…

Unusual variant has previously been confirmed only within the cosmic debris that hit Arizona’s Canyon Diablo 49,000 years ago.

A rare large planetary alignment will coincide with the Perseid meteor shower over Texas on August 10.

A scientist says fragments of a meteorite that punched through a Georgia homeowner's roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself

"There's often an edge to the human eye on the seafloor."

The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force.

"This is the first time a feature of this scale and size has been found in a local galaxy cluster."

Ancient stone tools in Sulawesi reveal early humans arrived over a million years ago after major ocean crossings.

Harvard's Avi Loeb shares that a Manhattan-sized interstellar object, 31/ATLAS, is approaching Earth.

Starting this weekend and into next week, the unique alignment of six planets, and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it bends light from distant galaxies.

The almost full sturgeon moon rises near sunset tonight in the southeast just below the moonlight-obscured swath of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the universe, more than 13 billion years ago