NASA's Webb Space Telescope used an infrared camera, which made Saturn a bit darker, but made its icy rings a lot brighter.

There's a new chapter in the Venus phosphine debate.

Plants have the unique ability to regenerate entirely from a somatic cell, i.e., an ordinary cell that does not typically participate in reproduction. This process involves the de novo (or new) formation of a shoot apical meristem (SAM) that gives rise to lat…

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is unveiling the mysterious and fascinating secrets of the Red Planet with new technology.

Every time a stem cell divides, one daughter cell remains a stem cell while the other takes off on its own developmental journey.

Photograph of the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test explosion in course of Operation Dominic on July 9, 1962. (US Govt. Defense Threat Reduction...

What is it like to work on the fundamental questions about the universe? On July 1, the Euclid satellite launched successfully. This mission from the European Space Agency will take images of the sky to create the most detailed map of the universe ever made. …

What would a traveler from the future think if one day s/he could analyze the rocks that are currently forming on the planet? Surely, this person would find quite a few plastic fragments and wonder why this material was so abundant in rocks of a certain age o…

Researchers from Imperial College London and schools in the UK and Italy have co-developed a set of citizen science tools for school pupils to monitor pollinators including butterflies, bumblebees and beetles.

How close can a rocky planet be to a star, and still sustain water and life?A recently discovered exoplanet may be key to solving that mystery, providing important insights about conditions at the inner edge of a star’s habitable zone and why Earth a

INDIA: In the world of thermodynamics, where the study of energy and its transformations takes centre stage, the Gibbs Paradox stands out as a mind-boggling enigma. Named after the American physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, this paradox challenges our intuition…

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research, such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a simulation technique that offers both high fidelity and sc…

NASA’s James Webb Telescope has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole known so far! And there is a shocking galaxy there too.

The Sun is the brightest thing around, but there’s still quite a lot we don’t know about it since we can only get so close. However now, NASA’s Parker Solar

Microbiomes play a key role for plant health and could make agriculture more sustainable -- but the principles behind the assembly of their communities have remained largely unknown. Researchers have shown how bacteria can compete for food, but also cooperate…

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a simulation technique that offers both high fidelity and sca…

It depends on whether you're looking under the North or South Pole.

Scientists have demonstrated that full-body regeneration in cnidarians, a group of animals that includes the jellyfish and hydra, can be driven by signals from senescent cells. This might be the original purpose of cellular senescence.Why can’t we ...

People in 17 states could see the northern lights next Thursday as they are forecast to shine over northern parts of the United States.

In males of many species, it pays to identify females that are nearing maturity to be the first in line for mating. Now researchers reporting in the journal iScience have found a remarkable example: male spider mites guard and then actively strip off the skin…

This method could be 100 times more sensitive than the best current observations using light.

Refractive index—the ratio of the speed of electromagnetic radiation in a medium to its speed in a vacuum—can be modulated fast enough to generate photonic time crystals (PTCs) in the near-visible part of the spectrum, a new study published in the journal Nan…

Spider mites engage in a bizarre mating ritual that has never been observed before in any animal species.

Seismic waves indicate variations on a scale of less than ten kilometers, and they get stronger the deeper you go.

A group of paleontologists, one with Massey University, two with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the fourth from the Bruce Museum, has found the fossilized remains of the oldest known extinct little penguin. In their paper published in the Jou…