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Textbooks challenged by new discovery about how cells divide

The first animals on Earth had no skeletons and that changes everything

This plastic is made from milk and it vanishes in 13 weeks

Scientists discover microbe that breaks a fundamental rule of the genetic code

New engine uses the freezing cold of space to generate power at night

Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference

Green hydrogen has a hidden problem and scientists may have fixed it

PFAS found in most americans linked to rapid biological aging

Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism

Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism

Lost fossils reveal sea monsters that took over after Earth’s greatest extinction

Massive US study finds higher cancer death rates near nuclear power plants

Training harder could be rewiring your gut bacteria

Scientists reverse muscle aging in mice and discover a surprising catch

Why the outer solar system is filled with giant cosmic “snowmen”

A giant blade-crested spinosaurus, the “hell heron,” discovered in the Sahara

Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics

NASA’s Hubble spots nearly invisible “ghost galaxy” made of 99% dark matter

James Webb Space Telescope captures strange magnetic forces warping Uranus

Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing

Common pneumonia bacterium may fuel Alzheimer’s disease

Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time

Giant virus discovery could rewrite the origin of complex life

New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater

Ancient drought may have wiped out the real-life hobbits 61,000 years ago

Breakthrough CRISPR system could reverse antibiotic resistance crisis

One stem cell generates 14 million tumor-killing NK cells in major cancer breakthrough

The surprisingly simple flaw that can undermine quantum encryption

Majorana qubits decoded in quantum computing breakthrough

Giving people cash didn’t cause more injuries or deaths

Universe may end in a “big crunch,” new dark energy data suggests

Universe may end in a “big crunch,” new dark energy data suggests

Scientists discover the enzyme that lets cancer rapidly rewire its DNA

Tracking global water circulation using atomic fingerprints

Psychedelics may work by shutting down reality and unlocking memory

Massive study finds most statin side effects aren’t caused by the drugs

Astronomers watch a massive star collapse into a black hole without a supernova

Astronomers watch a massive star collapse into a black hole without a supernova

Scientists used brain stimulation to make people more generous

Radar evidence suggests a massive lava tube beneath Venus

Asteroid Bennu reveals a new pathway to life’s chemistry

Radar evidence suggests a massive lava tube beneath Venus

James Webb reveals extraordinary organic molecules in an ultra luminous infrared galaxy

Just 5 weeks of brain training may protect against dementia for 20 years

Your cat’s purr says more than you think

Scientists just made living blood vessels on a chip that act like real ones

Scientists discover how life experiences rewrite the immune system

A bonobo’s pretend tea party is rewriting what we know about imagination

Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time

Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time

New research reveals humans could have as many as 33 senses

Scientists finally solve a 100-year-old mystery in the air we breathe

Scientists turn sunflower oil waste into a powerful bread upgrade

Ancient bones reveal chilling victory rituals after Europe’s earliest wars

This weird deep-sea creature was named by thousands of people online

This tiny molecular trick makes spider silk almost unbreakable

This tiny molecular trick makes spider silk almost unbreakable

This paper-thin chip turns invisible light into a steerable beam

A superfluid freezes and breaks the rules of physics

A new way to control light could boost future wireless tech

Two-month-old babies are already making sense of the world

The genetic turning point that made backbones possible

This strange little dinosaur is forcing a rethink of evolution

Scientists just mapped the hidden structure holding the Universe together

A record breaking gravitational wave is helping test Einstein’s theory of general relativity

A record breaking gravitational wave is helping test Einstein’s theory of general relativity

A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers

Robots descend into lava tubes to prepare for future Moon bases

Baby dinosaurs were the backbone of the Jurassic food chain

750-year-old Indian poems reveal a landscape scientists got wrong

Scientists discover hidden geometry that bends electrons like gravity

Scientists discover hidden geometry that bends electrons like gravity