For decades, marine scientists have tried mimicking nature’s hydrodynamic brilliance. Seals, whales, and rays slice through water with uncanny efficiency. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), by ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

To achieve this, the researchers carefully tuned the cooling rate. A fast “thermal quench”—dropping the temperature at around ...

From “realm” to “swift,” a set of distinctly ChatGPT-esque words — dubbed “GPT words” by the researchers — are steadily ...

This smell has been reported before by people with hyper-sensitive noses, including a woman named Joy Milne who inspired this ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

The most alarming case may be West Antarctica, where more than 100 active volcanoes lie buried beneath the ice. One glacier ...

The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

An AI robot performed gallbladder surgery without human help, and it worked every time. For over two decades, surgical robots ...

European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that promises breakthroughs ...

At the edge of the Mediterranean, off the coast of modern-day Alexandria, an international team has recovered 22 immense ...