Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and ...

Deep inside your nervous system, a tiny fault in how cells make energy can quietly change the course of a life. That hidden ...

Searching for "molecular postcodes" could detect new or recurring cancers before they're even visible on a scan.

There is no end to how much we can know of reality. But we can never know everything, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser. We are surrounded by mystery. This may sound like an anti-science statement but, ...

Astronomers studying the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS say its behaviour is becoming stranger by the week, with new ...

Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically determine the printing parameters of an unknown material. This could help engineers use emerging renewable or recycled materials that have ...

Paleontologists sifted through thousands of 3 to 3.7 million year-old fossils in New Zealand, which also included great white shark teeth and the spine of an extinct sawshark. By Laura Baisas ...

An unknown human ancestor walked funny and lived in the same place and at the same time as the famous "Lucy" ancestor in Tanzania. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Research published today in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut—92% of which were previously unknown. But as we and our colleagues from the Joint Genome ...

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