Science

Breaking MAD: Generative AI could break the internet, researchers find

Scientists discover entirely new wood type that could be highly efficient at carbon storage

Rock art and archaeological record reveal man's complex relationship with Amazonian animals

Robotics: Self-powered 'bugs' can skim across water to detect environmental data

Scientists untangle interactions between the Earth's early life forms and the environment over 500 million years

'Dancing molecules' heal cartilage damage

Researchers develop state-of-the-art device to make artificial intelligence more energy efficient

Team develops safe and long-cyclable lithium metal battery for high temperatures

Spin qubits go trampolining

The unintended consequences of success against malaria

Taco-shaped arthropod fossils gives new insights into the history of the first mandibulates

Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen without contact

Hunter-gatherers kept an 'orderly home' in the earliest known British dwelling

Drawing water from dry air

3D-printed microstructure forest facilitates solar steam generator desalination

Astrophysicists uncover supermassive blackhole/dark matter connection in solving the 'final parsec problem'

Life signs could survive near surfaces of Enceladus and Europa

Waste Styrofoam can now be converted into polymers for electronics

New snake discovery rewrites history, points to North America's role in snake evolution

New antidote for cobra bites discovered

Ancient microbes offer clues to how complex life evolved

Another intermediate-mass black hole discovered at the center of our galaxy

New gene therapy for muscular dystrophy offers hope

Cuttlefish can form false memories, too

Scientists develop new artificial intelligence method to create material 'fingerprints'

All stem cell therapies are not created equal

Widespread practice among athletes harms both performance and health

NASA's Webb investigates eternal sunrises, sunsets on distant world

Cosmic wrestling match

Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western U.S., likely due to drought and fire

'A history of contact': Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans

A stealth fungus has decimated North American bats but scientists may be a step closer to treating white-nose syndrome

The plague may have caused the downfall of the Stone Age farmers

Muscle machine: How water controls the speed of muscle contraction

How the 'heart and lungs' of a galaxy extend its life

Insight into one of life's earliest ancestors revealed in new study

Molecular atlas of blood vessel pathways in the human brain, across early brain development, adulthood and disease

The molecule that could alleviate stroke-related brain injury

Big gain in battle against harmful bacteria

Strong evidence for intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri

Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa

Life underground suited newly discovered dinosaur fine

New extremely fast carbon storage technology

Weaker ocean circulation could enhance carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere, study finds

Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolution trend

Fresh wind blows from historical supernova

The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets

Clever clothes! Seams in clothing capture body movement

Weight change across common antidepressant medications

The evidence is mounting: humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals

The beginnings of fashion

Organic material from Mars reveals the likely origin of life's building blocks

A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally

New and improved camera inspired by the human eye

Scientists turn white fat cells into calorie-burning beige fat

Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread

'World record' for data transmission speed

Playing youth sports linked to better mental health in adults