The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

Even the driest desert air carries a little moisture. Not much, of course, but enough that scientists have spent years trying ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers working deep in Uganda's Kibale National Park watched something unsettling unfold. The Ngogo ...

Drag and zoom to explore this new image of the Galactic Plane. Credit: ICRAR In a dazzling leap for cosmic cartography, astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

Caption:“Our system can turn a seemingly static, abstract image into an attention-catching animation,” says MIT PhD student Ticha Sethapakdi, a lead researcher on the FabObscura project. “The tool ...

Imagine the brain’s blood vessels as a bustling highway system, twisting, turning, and pulsing with life. Now picture a traffic jam in one of the most critical intersections: that’s what happens in ...

Graphic illustrating MIT’s new platform for manipulating light on the nanoscale. Thin structures represent patterned chromium sulfide bromide, a layered quantum material with different optical ...

For the first time in history, carbon dioxide concentrations have surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm) during their seasonal peak, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Information physics suggests that reality isn’t built from physical matter but from structured information, similar to how computer simulations run on data. One idea within this theory is that the ...

Astronomers discover Eos, a vast cloud of hydrogen near the Solar system. (Thomas Müller [HdA/MPIA] and Thavisha Dharmawardena [NYU]) In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers at Rutgers University ...

Neurons and their branch extensions known as dendrites are featured within a mouse’s cerebral cortex. How does the brain encode new information, like job tasks or song lyrics? Scientists at the ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, galaxies form at the core of dark matter halos—gravitationally bound regions extending far beyond a galaxy’s visible boundaries. These halos are key players in ...