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The New Story of the Milky Way’s Surprisingly Turbulent Past
The latest star maps are rewriting the story of our Milky Way, revealing a much more tumultuous history than astronomers suspected
The latest star maps are rewriting the story of our Milky Way, revealing a much more tumultuous history than astronomers suspected
Why did matter outlast antimatter? And clumps of cells can learn and remember
A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta has led to the first cloned rhesus monkey that has survived to adulthood and could pave the way for more research involving the primates...
Tardigrades are microscopic animals that can survive a host of conditions that are too extreme to ever occur on Earth—and scientists want to learn their secrets
New cross-species research suggests a theory of mind is one thing that sets humans apart from apes
The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted in January 2022 with the force of an atomic weapon. The disaster has launched dozens of new studies about global warming
Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad...
Injection of a hormone called FGF21 rapidly revives intoxicated mice.
A serendipitously discovered object nearly as massive as the Milky Way appears to be made of primordial gas that has formed almost no stars
Permian period petroleum helped to preserve minute scraps of pebbly hide that probably belonged to a lizardlike creature
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