Scientists have mapped neurotransmitter receptors in macaque brains, discovering key organizational principles that help distinguish internal thoughts from external influences. The data, made publicly available, could provide valuable insights into brain acti…

A team of researchers says the lack of clumpiness in the universe could help to shed new light on the composition of dark matter.

As dawn rose over the German city of Bremen on May 7, 1823, Heinrich Olbers put the finishing touches to an article that left his name in history. After the deaths of his wife and daughter, Dr. Olbers had recently given up his work as an opthalmologist to dev…

Researchers unveiled key organizational principles in the brain, thanks to an intricate mapping of neurotransmitter receptors.

Astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere begins with the closest alignments of Mars, Venus and the 'Earth-shining' crescent moon until 2028.

A new study suggests that pulsars could act as natural gravitational wave sensors, setting limits on supermassive black hole mergers or even detecting them.

Aleksandra Radenovic, head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology in the School of Engineering, has worked for years to improve nanopore technology, which involves passing a molecule like DNA through a tiny pore in a membrane to measure an ionic current.

We’ve filed plenty of reports here at UT warning about the potential impact of Starlink and similar satellites on the field of astronomy. We’ve gone so far as to point out that the granddaddy of space-based telescopes – Hubble – has already had some of its im…

A new report shows just how close Earth is to reaching total chaos, and unfortunately, it isn't that surprising.

Despite the exciting discovery, scientists remain puzzled as to how they can use the information to pinpoint forthcoming earthquakes.

Join us on Wednesday, June 21 at noon Pacific for the DIY Picosatellites Hack Chat with Nathaniel Evry! Building a satellite and putting it in orbit was until very recently something only a nation …

Planets like Tatooine existing in real life were long thought impossible, but George Lucas was 37 years ahead of science when creating Star Wars.

The extensive water plume that originates from Enceladus and extends up to 40 Enceladus radii is mapped and characterized by JWST. Data suggest a sustained and uninterrupted plume activity spanning decades and a surface dominated by crystalline H2O ice. No ot…

A quartet of chemists at the University of Oxford has, for the first time, found a way to get two beryllium atoms to bond with one another. In their paper published in the journal Science, Josef Boronski, Agamemnon Crumpton, Lewis Wales and Simon Aldridge, de…

Gravitational waves, like the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, have made their mark on a decade of extraordinary discoveries in physics. Unlike gravity, which is created when massive objects leave their mark in the fabric of spacetime, gravitational wave…

Many planetary scientists studying Jupiter’s moon Europa assumed that it formed with a metallic core during or shortly after accretion.

Analysis of bite marks on Tanystropheus hydroides, which lived during the Middle Triassic, showed another predator had attacked from above and torn its neck in two.

Aleksandra Radenovic, head of the Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology in the School of Engineering, has worked for years to improve nanopore technology, which involves passing a molecule like DNA through a tiny pore in a membrane to measure an ionic current. Scie…

A quasar ejected the remains of stars, but another galaxy sucked them back in.

A key challenge in neuroscience is to understand how the brain can adapt to a changing world, even with a relatively static anatomy. The way the brain's areas are structurally and functionally related to each other—its connectivity—is a key component. In orde…

Science was done differently back in the day.

An unstable sunspot, AR3335 has exploded producing a solar flare that triggered blackouts over the Atlantic Ocean.