A newly discovered visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae is reshaping long-held assumptions about how vertebrates see the world.

Once, long ago, a little reptile going about its business plopped itself down in the mud before getting up and carrying on with its day.

Despite it all, NASA doesn't want to give up on Boeing, and the Starliner project is moving ahead in a reduced capacity.

The strange fossils were lost in museum collections around the world for some 50 years.

Fossils reveal that long-necked baby dinosaurs were the main food source for large, voracious Jurassic predators.

The Green River defies gravity: it flows through 99 miles of mountains thanks to movements hidden beneath the surface.

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.

New research shows that an intense regional dust storm transported unusually high amounts of water vapor into Mars’ upper atmosphere, boosting hydrogen escape. The discovery reshapes understanding of how the planet gradually lost its water. Today, Mars is kno…

Using commercially available technology and innovative methods, researchers at NBI have pushed the limits of how fast you can detect changes in the sensitive quantum states in the qubit. Their work allows researchers to follow rapid changes in qubit performan…

Rapid technological and scientific advances have fueled a huge wave of innovation over the past decades. The speed of global innovation is known to be dependent on the exchange of knowledge and skills between different nations worldwide.

Scientists have many theories about how Earth's raw materials turned into living cells, but a new proposal is particularly slimy.

Tiny aerosol particles in the air play a big role in regulating how much sunlight our planet absorbs or reflects, and how clouds form above us. In a recent study, researchers found that extreme heat waves can trigger new particle formation (NPF), even at temp…

Scientists found that rock movements under Antarctica are correlated to major changes in Antarctica's climate over millions of years.

In the journal Antiquity, Dr. Shokouh Khosravi published preliminary findings of the largest known corpus of prehistoric seal impressions in the entire ancient world. The corpus, made up of over 7,000 seal impressions, more than 200 clay figurines, clay token…

Reservoir computing is a promising machine learning-based approach for the analysis of data that changes over time, such as weather patterns, recorded speech or stock market trends. Classical reservoir computing techniques are known to perform best at the "ed…

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.”

An ancient, fast-feeding quasar is breaking the rules of how black holes consume matter and generate galaxy-shaping jets.

A routine outing by the water turned into something few people ever expect to witness. What emerged from the riverbed was a massive, ancient bone, impossible to ignore.

The powerful software can reduce the time needed to simulate reactions with large molecules from weeks to just minutes.

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital mechanics behind where eclipses happen — and don't.

A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why Neanderthals put them there.

If launched in 2035, a spacecraft performing such a maneuver could fly by 3I/ATLAS by 2085.

Deserts are notoriously dry, so why do so many of them border oceans?

Researchers are working on solutions.

The second of two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets launched on Saturday (Feb. 21) completed a record-breaking 33rd re-flight.