Science

How the body really ages: 7 million cells mapped across 21 organs

Your morning coffee could one day help fight cancer

Textbooks challenged by new discovery about how cells divide

The first animals on Earth had no skeletons and that changes everything

Iron outperforms rare metals in stunning chemistry advance

Scientists compared dinosaurs to mammals for decades but missed this key difference

PFAS found in most americans linked to rapid biological aging

Apollo rocks reveal the Moon had brief bursts of super-strong magnetism

Lost fossils reveal sea monsters that took over after Earth’s greatest extinction

Alzheimer’s may begin with a silent drop in brain blood flow

190-million-year-old “Sword Dragon” fossil rewrites ichthyosaur history

Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia

Why the outer solar system is filled with giant cosmic “snowmen”

A giant blade-crested spinosaurus, the “hell heron,” discovered in the Sahara

Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics

Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing

Scientists reveal how exercise protects the brain from Alzheimer’s

Scientists discover gene that could save bananas from deadly Panama disease

The nearsightedness explosion may be fueled by dim indoor light, not just screens

This reengineered HPV vaccine trains T cells to hunt down cancer

Viagra and shingles vaccine show surprising promise against Alzheimer’s

Massive magma surge sparked 28,000 Santorini earthquakes

Microplastics have reached Antarctica’s only native insect

Why some kids struggle with math even when they try hard

Tracking global water circulation using atomic fingerprints

Scientists discover pets are helping an invasive flatworm spread

Scientists discover a hidden gut bacterium linked to good health

Scientists used brain stimulation to make people more generous

Twin beams blast from a hidden star in stunning Hubble Space Telescope image

Scientists make microplastics glow to see what they do inside your body

NASA scientists say meteorites can’t explain mysterious organic compounds on Mars

Scientists discover how life experiences rewrite the immune system

Italy’s Winter Olympics are stunning from space

A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics

Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time

New research reveals humans could have as many as 33 senses

Scientists were wrong for decades about DNA knots

A hidden Aloe vera compound takes aim at Alzheimer’s

This tiny molecular trick makes spider silk almost unbreakable

A hidden brain effect of prenatal alcohol exposure

Scientists found a sugar that could defeat deadly superbugs

A superfluid freezes and breaks the rules of physics

Endangered sea turtles hear ship noise loud and clear

Two-month-old babies are already making sense of the world

MIT's new brain tool could finally explain consciousness

The genetic turning point that made backbones possible

This strange little dinosaur is forcing a rethink of evolution

Scientists just mapped the hidden structure holding the Universe together

Four astronauts enter quarantine as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 launch nears

One of Earth’s most abundant lifeforms has a fatal flaw

Scientists are hunting for a forbidden antimatter transformation

NASA’s Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars

750-year-old Indian poems reveal a landscape scientists got wrong

Scientists discover hidden geometry that bends electrons like gravity