A curious red Martian rock nicknamed Sapphire Canyon has scientists excited, as its spotted appearance hints at possible ...

Captured at a location called “Falbreen,” this 360-degree view mosaic was stitched together 96 images that were acquired May ...

Scientists at UC San Diego have discovered a small but powerful section of DNA, called HAR123, that could help explain what makes the human brain so unique. Instead of being a gene, HAR123 acts like a ...

Researchers have found a clever way to make quantum dots, tiny light-emitting crystals, produce streams of perfectly controlled photons without relying on expensive, complex electronics. By using a ...

Weaver ants have cracked a teamwork puzzle that humans have struggled with for over a century — instead of slacking off as ...

Hubble has captured the faint beauty of NGC 45, a spiral galaxy in Cetus whose glowing pink star-forming clouds reveal hidden ...

In a Puerto Rican coffee farm, researchers uncovered a web of chaotic interactions between three ant species and a predator ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in ...

Extreme heat waves and cold spells on the Great Lakes have more than doubled since the late 1990s, coinciding with a major El ...

Cats can naturally develop dementia with brain changes strikingly similar to Alzheimer’s disease in humans, including toxic ...

Cambridge scientists have cracked the mystery of why cuff-based blood pressure monitors often give inaccurate readings, ...