“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

A new light-based sensor detects cancer markers at near-zero concentrations.

Nguyen and her team solved this by designing a version of their molecule that remains liquid at room temperature. It requires ...

Most vaccines work like a “wanted” poster. They show the immune system a specific feature of a microbe so it can recognize ...

The woman, who lived about 2,500 years ago, was around 25 to 30 years old at the time of her death. Archaeologists found her lying on her side on a wooden bed inside a larch log burial chamber. She ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

The Cold War left many inglorious legacies. The Runit dome is a good example. From the outside, it looks almost too ...

Among the most feared are the so-called ESKAPE pathogens, a rogues’ gallery of microbes that “escape” many treatments and drive stubborn hospital-acquired infections. One of them, Acinetobacter ...

At any given moment, 89,000 terawatts of raw solar power is slamming into the Earth’s atmosphere. It is a mind-boggling amount of energy. But right now, our best technologies are essentially trying to ...

During the development phase, the team also tested prompts asking candidates to describe a past time they had authority over ...