A fourth Sun-like star loops around this tightly packed inner nexus roughly once every 1,000 days. The whole collection would fit inside f Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun. It is the most compact ...

Back from the brink. Under a microscope at Chester Zoo, UK, a greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) awaits its ...

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals represent a carefully-crafted road map for future human and planetary prosperity.

The United States has slammed the brakes on legal routes to limit greenhouse gases. But cities, states and businesses can ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers have used that green fluorescent protein and similar molecules to light up ...

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest known fragments of Earth rocks. Some date back to the Hadean Eon, which ...

People with aphantasia are offering brain scientists a window into consciousness. This is an audio version of our Feature: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?

Weak shock waves triggered by micro-cracks in the adhesive layer of tape cause it to screech when being unspooled from its ...

The panel has been compared to the IPCC – the international panel whose research helped to shape landmark climate agreements.

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or protozoans to grow despite exposure to antimicrobial substances designed to inhibit their growth. Microbes can ...

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