A week ago, the Rubin Observatory initiated the release of its much-anticipated flood of data from its 3.2 gigapixel camera (as announced…

A long-term study uncovers a massive freshwater influx transforming the Southern Indian Ocean and reshaping how scientists understand global ocean circulation.

Scientists have reconstructed the face of one of the most famous hominin fossils.

"Every night — every minute — is precious."

Electrons can be "kicked across" solar materials at almost the fastest speed nature allows, scientists have discovered, challenging long-held theories about how solar energy systems work. The finding could help researchers design more efficient ways of harves…

Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the brightest and most distant one yet.

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Thursday, March. 5, through Friday, March 6, with the aurora borealis possible from northern U.S. states and Canada.

NASA announced it had found the source of a helium flow blockage that forced it to roll the Artemis II rocket back from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and delay its lunar fly-by mission until at least April.

Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides have some key structural and functional twists that make them especially interesting for photocatalysis. So far, there is only limited k…

Brazil's Butantan Institute identified a new mite larvae, Araneothrombium brasiliensis, feeding on a spider in a museum specimen case.

A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.

Cryo-electron microscopy and massively parallel assays shed light on the mechanism by which DICER, a key enzyme in the RNase III family, cleaves RNA at precise locations to produce small RNAs.

Structural and biochemical studies of influenza virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (FluPol) in complex with transcribing host RNA polymerase II reveal the molecular mechanisms of RNA cap snatching by FluPol.

PIEZO2 is intrinsically more rigid than PIEZO1, and disparate mechanical stimuli paradoxically evoke opposite conformational and gating responses in each channel.

System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.

And it looks like the toxicity can be washed out, meaning it may be possible to cleanse Mars dirt for crop-growing duty.

China is set to perform additional testing of its Mengzhou crew capsule following a successful…

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species lasts forever.

VANCOUVER — British Columbians took to social media Tuesday evening to share sightings of a bright fireball in the night sky over Vancouver and a house...

Stanford researchers have combined two microscopy techniques to create a one-of-a-kind instrument that can show cell structures interacting in real time at an unprecedented 120-nanometer resolution—the highest achieved without the use of fluorescent labels. T…

The crater left behind from the impact has yet to be found.

A newly documented microscopic animal in Great Salt Lake sediments reveals a hidden layer of life scientists had completely overlooked.

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The findings suggest that an elementary brain may have already appeared in our most ancient relatives, reshaping our understanding of nervo…