Dog skeletons and fur decorations on historical anoraks are among the researchers’ sources of ancient DNA. Credit: Carsten Egevang The…
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A black hole’s bizarre “heartbeat” is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a…
Antibiotic use can have knock-on effects on the immune systemUrbanImages/Alamy Children exposed to antibiotics in the womb or early in…
Graphical abstract. Credit: ACS Catalysis (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c03512 Compared with the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process, renewable energy-driven electrocatalytic nitrate reduction reaction…
Two of the solar system’s most famous asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu, may be fragments of a single massive “parent” asteroid…
An artwork in Geneva, Switzerland, where talks on a global plastic treaty took place last weekFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images…
Student Audreanna Johnson views her cell phone near a cell phone locker at Ronald McNair Sr. High School, Thursday, Aug.…
In a series of “victory” celebrations more than 6,000 years ago in northeastern France, a group of defenders severed the…
Origami “bloom” designs fold into flower-like shapesBYU Photo A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 1917, Sigmund Freud described three “narcissistic insults” that had been caused by science. These were…
A protein that helps synthesize DNA is different in modern humans than it is in Neanderthals and Denisovans — our…
Golam Khandaker’s mother has had arthritis for as long as he can remember. She also lives with depression, and it…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Dr. Jake Johnson, cardiology resident at North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is the…
At a meeting held by the Food and Drug Administration on July 21, 2025, a panel convened by the agency…
Can we broadcast quantum information?Weiquan Lin/Getty Images Sharing quantum information the same way we broadcast TV or radio programs may…
Credit: Particle Imagine traveling to a new and distant place using only your senses to guide you. This is life…
Black holes have dominated our coverage this week, with the discovery of a record-breaking space-time rupture believed to be the…
Stromatolites are rock-like structures formed by bacteria in shallow waterlkonya/Shutterstock Microbes from a remote bay in Western Australia seem to…
Causal gene prioritization and variant functional annotation. A) Strategy to prioritize likely causal genes. Genes closest to conditionally independent genomewide…
Scientists may have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova, after using a Spotify-like artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the skies…
Symptoms of ADHD can be managed with medicines, as well as through talking therapiesAlex Di Stasi/Shutterstock People with ADHD who…
Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams (Collage). Credit: Max-Planck-Institut für…
Two people who lived in England during the Early Middle Ages had recent sub-Saharan African ancestry — likely from a…
A human Y (right) and X chromosome seen with a scanning electron microscopePOWER AND SYRED/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Men who have…
Assorted ‘Riding Sun/Srivatsa’ coins found at Oc Eo/An Giang, Vietnam, and Angkor Borei, Cambodia, held at the Ho Chi Minh…
A rare hurricane that raged high above Earth’s North Pole in 2014 packed a surprising punch, and may be even…
Artistic concept of what the gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look likeESA/Webb Copyright: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, R.…
Delegates are meeting in the main assembly hall at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva. Indigenous communities from North…
Survivors of the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in A.D. 79 returned to the ash-covered Roman city in the centuries…
Is that gravitational wave signal coming from a black hole, or something even stranger?titoOnz / Alamy Exotic viscous stars could…