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Science news: space, biology, climate, medicine and the research changing how we live.
A system built by University of New Mexico and Los Alamos researchers uses tensor networks and machine learning to directly evaluate atomic interaction calculations that previously took weeks of supercomputer time.
Snow flies use antifreeze proteins and mammal-like heat generation to stay active at temperatures that would freeze most insects.
Study reveals immersive dreaming makes sleep feel more refreshing even when brain activity is high, challenging traditional views of sleep quality.
Veronika the cow demonstrates flexible, multi-purpose tool use previously seen only in advanced species, challenging assumptions about livestock intelligence.
First large survey of floral nectar reveals widespread alcohol content, with pollinators consuming human-equivalent amounts without intoxication.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have revealed that the diabetes drug works not just in the body, but through specific neurons in the brain, opening new therapeutic possibilities.
Researchers identify entirely new superfamily of amphipods in Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, pushing boundaries of known deep-sea life.
Breakthrough peptide technology helps insulin survive digestion and cross intestinal barriers, achieving 33-41% bioavailability compared to injections.
University of Geneva researchers found cancer spread follows a predictable molecular program, and their MangroveGS tool can read it from standard tumor RNA sequencing.
GJ 887 d orbits one of the calmest red dwarf stars known, making it only the second potentially habitable planet within ten light-years of our solar system.
Kumamoto University researchers develop system that could finally replace daily injections with pills for diabetes patients worldwide.
23-million-year-old rhinoceros found in Canadian High Arctic reveals rhinos lived farther north than ever known and crossed continents later than expected.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute identified the complete enzyme pathway that produces quinine in tree bark, including a novel intermediate compound called cinchonium never seen before in nature.
Scientists at UNSW and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital demonstrated that removing methyl groups from silenced DNA can reactivate genes — potentially transforming treatment of sickle cell and other diseases.
TotalEnergies agrees to abandon wind leases off North Carolina and New York coasts, will redirect investment to fossil fuel projects instead.
Using a metasurface of precisely tailored silver nanocubes, Duke University researchers created a pyroelectric detector operating at 2.8 gigahertz — hundreds of times faster than any previous thermal photodetector — with potential applications from medical imaging to deep-space sensing.
Researchers have synthesized ruthenium complexes that physically reorganize themselves to perform five distinct computational functions in a single structure, pointing toward AI hardware that computes like the human brain.
A global team at OIST and Stanford found that bound electron-hole pairs in atomically thin semiconductors reshape a material's quantum properties far more efficiently than laser light, at a fraction of the energy cost.
By combining two different types of magnetic frustration in a single crystal, Stephen Wilson's lab at UC Santa Barbara has created a material system that may allow scientists to dial up exotic quantum states on demand.
A five-year, 160-day-at-sea expedition catalogued 788 species in the abyssal Pacific, while separate Southern Ocean and Argentine Basin surveys added dozens more potential new species.
Kelly Chibale's Holistic Drug Discovery Centre in South Africa represents a rare facility on the continent with full capabilities to develop treatments for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.
When a PhD student forgot to add a catalyst to his reaction, it worked better without it — leading to an 'anti-Friedel-Crafts' reaction published in Nature Synthesis that lets chemists fine-tune drug molecules at any stage of development using nothing more than an LED lamp.
TOI-561 b was expected to be a bare, airless rock baked by its star — but temperature measurements reveal it is cooler than it should be, pointing to an atmosphere that may be continuously replenished by volcanic outgassing on the 10-billion-year-old world.
An international team used laser-ablation uranium-series dating to confirm that a faded, claw-fingered handprint on Muna island far predates any European cave art, reshaping what scientists thought they knew about the origins of human symbolic thinking.
NASA crew members spent back-to-back days outside the International Space Station installing roll-out solar panels designed to extend the lab's operational life through 2030.
ISRO's Gaganyaan-1 mission will test whether India can become the world's fourth nation to independently launch humans to space, with a half-humanoid robot making the maiden voyage.
Kelly Chibale's Holistic Drug Discovery Centre in South Africa represents rare African facility capable of developing medicines for malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases that disproportionately affect the continent.
Six months into exploring an expanse of web-like mineral ridges in Gale Crater, Curiosity has drilled rock samples revealing clay and carbonate minerals that could only form in long-lived liquid water, suggesting Mars remained hospitable far longer and higher up its geology than scientists previously believed.
Intelectin-2, a lectin found throughout the gastrointestinal tract, was shown in Nature Communications to bind to bacteria's sugar coat and also crosslink mucin proteins to reinforce the mucus barrier, acting as a dual-purpose defender that could inspire new treatments for inflammatory bowel disease.
Researchers at KU Leuven and VIB discovered that lecanemab works not by binding amyloid plaques directly but by activating the brain's own immune cells through the antibody's Fc fragment, pointing toward a new class of Alzheimer's therapies that could be more effective and have fewer side effects.