These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study ...

Chemists have found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for ...

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In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery beneath Antarctica, revealing a hidden network of over 332 colossal underwater canyons. These ancient structures, located 4,000 meters below the ice, ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Using artificial intelligence to create new things is all the rage right now. Whether you want text, computer code, or images, there are uncountable generative AI models that can oblige. Google ...

Ribonucleic acid, commonly known as RNA, is involved in many biological functions, and some, including gene silencing, are utilized to cure diseases. RNA has recently gained attention as a promising ...

When sonar first picked up a massive, stair‑like object on the floor of the Baltic Sea, the image looked less like geology and more like a movie prop. The structure’s circular outline, sharp edges and ...