Category: Science

A picture of a distant, shark-shaped cloud of gas in space has earned the top prize in a Royal Observatory Greenwich contest for amateur space

Scientists have identified an inherited genetic mutation that greatly increases the risk of lung cancer, even in people who have never smoked. The mutation involves

A “baby” exoplanet, discovered emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a nearby star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study reveals. The

Time keeps getting away from us. It has a fraught relationship with our subjective experience — sometimes slowing down or dragging on; and at other

In a new study, scientists reared lab mice that were missing sections of their brains and then replaced the missing tissue with human cells. The

In an extraordinary first-of-its-kind video, researchers have documented a humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf. The footage was recorded off the coast of southeastern

Removing a type of immune cell from lymph nodes in mice reduced brain inflammation and cell damage in a model of Alzheimer’s-like disease.

Anak Krakatau erupts ash and volcanic gases in this image acquired with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 on Sept. 5, 2026.

Around 700 million years ago, a group of organisms resembling little more than glowing, gelatinous blobs split off from the rest of the animals, forming

A researcher was perusing a collection of old Egyptian texts in a Dutch library when he stumbled upon a torn piece of parchment containing a

Tyrannosaurus rex was a hottie with a body temperature similar to our own, according to a new analysis of their teeth. The finding supports the

The long-lost words of ancient philosophers may finally be revealed nearly 2,000 years after the violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius scorched and buried them, thanks

Scientists have grown human brain tissue to fill most of a mouse’s cortex, creating a new model for studying brain disease and neural circuits.

A cryptic announcement raises questions about the type of weapons and how they could be used. We talked to an expert about the consequences.