A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push life’s limits of time and energy.

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in a never-before-seen triple system.

A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.

Humanity’s rapid CO2 emissions could be pushing us toward a mass extinction event, but how soon will the planet’s fragile balance collapse?

Science helps us imagine the vastness of space and time — and our small but meaningful place within it.

A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.

Using paleomagnetic samples collected along the shores of Lake Superior, a new study illuminates the movement of a billion-year-old paleocontinent as it crept south toward a tectonic collision.

For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century—revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed.

A team of scientists has revealed how a single quantum device can accurately measure the three fundamental units of electricity—the ampere (unit of electrical current), the volt (unit of electrical potential) and the ohm (unit of electrical resistance). This …

Analysis of 18 different carnivorous dinosaur species' skulls has revealed that not all chompers chewed the same.

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.

Where do interstellar objects come from? Scientists have revealed where Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/Atlas originated in space, and also their age. One of them is almost as old as Earth. Where are they headed?

“Intercrystals” could pave the way toward greener electronics and next-generation quantum technologies. Scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have identified a new type of material known as intercrystals, which display unusual electronic behaviors th…

Scientists have discovered a solution to the “damped quantum harmonic oscillator,” paving the way for what could become the world’s tiniest measuring device. A plucked guitar string rings for a few seconds before the sound fades away. A swing on a playground,…

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its own light."

In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.

An expert explains why this will be enormously bad for the United States.

“Punctum” is a compact, luminous speckle of light harboring a strangely organized magnetic field, astrophysicists say.

The future of energy generation might be in rotating, self-propelled hunks of ice.

Yes, that seabird soaring above your head will poop on you—for very scientific, evolutionary reasons.

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Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of supernova 2023zkd, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had ever seen before....

By analyzing the data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and elsewhere have probed the properties of a massive and old galaxy designated SMILES-GS-191748. Resul…

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Stefan Guldin is a materials scientist who used to work on biosensors. Now, he’s developing meat alternatives.