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The intestinal lining of a mouse, with several bacteria (green) and one red blood cell (red)IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/Science…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase “A long time ago…
Dinosaurs weren’t in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that…
EC-STM image of 2,2′-bipyrimidine-modified Pt(111) in Ar-saturated 0.1-M KOH solution with 10−4 M of 2,2′-bipyrimidine at 0.46 V. Credit: Nature Energy (2025).…
The earliest known domestic cat in what is now the United States perished 466 years ago in a shipwreck off…
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy, JrTom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images When Robert F Kennedy…
Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the…
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting people to question what the fundamental limits of the technology are. Increasingly,…
Encrypted messages could be hidden within a normal-looking conversation on social mediaTero Vesalainen/iStockphoto/Getty Images Secret messages can be hidden inside…
The 2025 United Nations (UN) Oceans Conference, seen here with Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivering a speech at the 2022…
Global warming has made it easier for bacteria and other germs to contaminate the food supply, and this little-discussed danger…
Disinformation can be especially prevalent on social media sitesStefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has…
The series of steps used by researchers from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine to create bioengineered teeth. They used…
Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter.Dark matter, the invisible substance…
Bone collector caterpillars from the Waianae mountain range in Oahu, HawaiiDaniel Rubinoff et al. 2025 The newly described “bone collector”…
Heuristic plot showing various microlensing surveys’ sensitivity to DM clumps assuming that 𝑅𝜒,eff ≈𝑅𝜒. Surveys are sensitive to dimming in…
The “Eye of Horus,” a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The…
The odd effects of special relativity can be harnessed to build quantum computersYuichiro Chino/Getty Images Special relativity could be harnessed…
Lesser Goldfinch (Male), Carol’s Garden, Palm Canyon Resort, Borrego Springs, California. Credit: Alan D. Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.5 New research…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Mount Nyamuragira and Mount Nyiragongo, Congo [-1.46079851, 29.22711414]What’s in the photo? Infrared images of lava lakes…
Can weight-loss drugs ditch the needles?Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images A daily pill appears to lower blood sugar in people with type…
The capsid-protein language model (CAP-PLM) predicts fitness of AAV2 mutants. Credit: Human Gene Therapy (2025). DOI: 10.1089/hum.2024.227 A new study…
Earth-based lifeforms known as lichens may be tough enough to survive on Mars, a new study suggests.Scientists came to this…
Real aliens may not be so obvious, if we ever find themNaeblys/Alamy If you’re the kind of person who keeps…
A mosaic of two pictures showing the rover arm after scanning and sampling one of the rocks discussed in the…
QUICK FACTSName: Plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus)Where it lives: South America, from southern Bolivia and Paraguay to ArgentinaWhat it eats: Grasses,…
Our retinas could be made to see a vivid shade of blue-greenMikeCS images/Alamy Five people have witnessed an intense green-blue…
Basic research contributes to technological innovation by deepening our understanding of the interplay between antiferromagnetism, band topology, and strong electron…
The universe’s missing matter may have finally been found.Astronomers think regular matter — that is, the stuff that isn’t dark…