All cancers fall into just two categories, according to new research from scientists at Sinai Health, in findings that could provide a new strategy for treating the most aggressive and untreatable forms ...

Astronomers have observed five nearby galaxies -- NGC 1087, NGC 1300, NGC 3627, NGC 4254, and NGC 4303 -- with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array…

New life quite literally sparks into being, at least under fluorescence microscopy. That moment when sperm touches egg, billions of zinc atoms ignite across their now conjoined surfaces.

SpaceX has begun rapidly assembling the first orbital Starship prototype and the Super Heavy booster set to launch it isn’t far behind. SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas rocket factory seemingly turned a corner in early July as sections of Starship 20 (S20) began…

Scientists publish results from an experiment, in which 152 lucid dreaming practitioners tried to contact ‘aliens’ while asleep. The most plausible reports were accompanied by fear and sleep paralysis, which are common for ‘real’ alien abduction stories.…

Cannabis was first domesticated around 12,000 years ago in China, researchers found, after analyzing the genomes of plants from across the world.

New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due to the huge gravity on the ultra-dense objects. The research is presented today at the National ...

Testing of an entire Italian town shows antibody levels remain high nine months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic.

Using the Event Horizon Telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger supermassive black holes seem to be ‘scaled-up’ versions of their smaller counterparts

Imagine a Universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our Universe were a finite donut, then such movements would be possible and physicists could potentially measure its size.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is proving very adept at certain tasks – like inventing human faces that don't actually exist, or winning games of poker – but these networks still struggle when it comes to something humans do naturally: imagine.

Jeff Bezos just joined the very small cohort of people who have launched into space and gazed at Earth from above.

In the US alone, thousands are currently waiting for organ transplants, and an average of 17 people die each day because they've run out of time – and that's why the development of artificial organs is such an important field of research.

A slice of material just a single atom thick is breaking records.

Along with analyzing rocks using X-rays and ultraviolet light, NASA’s Perseverance rover will zoom in for close-ups of rock surfaces that might show evidence of past microbial activity in Jezero Crater, the landing site of the Mars rover.

Chimpanzees and gorillas are not known for violence towards each other, and the two hominid species live peacefully together in certain areas – so it's surprising and saddening that researchers have witnessed lethal fights between them for the fi

Exoskeletons—wearable devices used by workers on assembly lines or in warehouses to alleviate stress on their lower backs—may compete with valuable resources in the brain while people work, canceling ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a disk around a planet ...

NASA on Friday said it had selected SpaceX to launch a planned voyage to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, a huge win for Elon Musk's company as it sets its sights deeper into the solar system.

Plans for thorium reactors have been around since the 1940s, but Chinese scientists believe they are finally close to creating a working prototype.

An immobile probe sitting like a squat turtle on the surface of Mars has finally delivered a comprehensive picture of the red planet's internal structure.