Scientists discovered "dark oxygen" produced by deep-sea polymetallic nodules deep below sea level, redefining our understanding of ocean and early Earth...

Highlights from a cometary trio that captured our imaginations.

Scientists at Ames National Laboratory, in collaboration with Indranil Das's group at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (India), have found a surprising electronic feature in transitional metal-based compounds that could pave the way for a new class of sp…

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like modern-day Death Valley evaporated under the sun's gentle heat, leaving behind crystals of halite—rock salt.

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction.

An international team of researchers is studying how vibration applied to tendons influences how people experience physical effort during exercise. Why does a brief jog leave some people feeling worn out while others appear to run with ease? Training level an…

Unearthed from the past, 200-million-year-old dinosaur embryos hold more than just fossilized bones.

A colossal fossil hidden inside a seaside boulder is forcing scientists to rethink everything they knew about life before the dinosaurs. Measuring the length of a car, this ancient creature didn’t just break size records—it upended decades of scientific assum…

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…