Scientists have turned ordinary wood into a material that rivals steel in strength and weighs far less—and it’s already heading to market. Built from natural fibers but engineered for extreme performance, this breakthrough could upend industries from construc…

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory into "survival mode."

MIT researchers developed a method that converts a user’s design into a flat series of interconnected tiles that can be converted to a 3D structure with one pull of a single string.

Using camera traps, ornithologists have photographed a previously unknown species of jewel-babbler in the forested karst of the Southern Fold Mountains in Papua New Guinea.

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this "remote touch."

Monday night’s curved viewing line nearly stretches to the border of Minnesota and Iowa.

Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain in terms of abstract information processing: get the right f…

On December 19, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came closest to Earth at a distance of 269 million kilometers. As many of us…

Scientists have built a device that generates electricity using Earth’s rotation and magnetic field.

A record-breaking black hole simulation has revealed what truly unfolds in these cosmic powerhouses. It’s wild.

Scientists captured first real-time 3D video of human embryo implantation, revealing mechanical forces behind successful pregnancy.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators have made a discovery that bridges artificial intelligence and nuclear physics. By applying deep learni…

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.

A strange black fungus discovered inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 doesn’t just resist radiation—it appears to feed off it.

Large doses of vitamin C may provide our lungs with a degree of protection from the harmful effects of fine particles in the air. Referred to as PM2.5, in reference to their micrometer-wide particle size, these pollutants have been linked to issues such as as…

A Norse saga, a man in a well, and a genetic study that confirmed a legend.

Ever wondered what it would take to drill to the center of the Earth? The answers are full of surprises.

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even below freezing point.

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to eventually create a home for us in it."

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases of such extreme parental consanguinity in the archaeological record.

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

Earth’s atmosphere is escaping into space—and the Moon has been quietly collecting it for billions of years. Shocking new research reveals a hidden connection that could rewrite everything we know about Earth’s past.

Scientists have uncovered a vast hidden landmass beneath the Pacific—larger than India and missing from maps for centuries. Nearly invisible and long dismissed, this discovery is rewriting Earth’s geological story and revealing secrets buried since the age of…