Known as the Richat Structure, this 50-kilometre-wide geological wonder has once again fascinated scientists and storytellers ...

The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

Fifteen years ago, researchers working deep in Uganda's Kibale National Park watched something unsettling unfold. The Ngogo chimpanzees, one of the ...

Forget your umbrella, today’s weather forecast comes not from Earth, but from a blazing rogue planet adrift in the cosmos. SIMP-0136, a lonely world without a parent star, has just delivered one of ...

The two Yunxian skulls used in the study were highly distorted, but Xijun Ni and his colleagues were able to reconstruct them using 3D modelling. ©Mr. Guanghui Zhao In the quiet bends of the Han River ...

A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Credit Yaakov Weiss The chemical mood of Earth’s mantle, its ...

New wearable microneedle patches mimic bee stings to provide painless, long-lasting drug delivery Credit: Professor Wonku Kang from Chung-Ang University In a world where chronic illness often means a ...

Colorectal cancer is the world’s second deadliest cancer. It’s treatable if caught early, but colonoscopies, the main way to detect it, are expensive and uncomfortable, so many people delay getting ...

From frying pans to raincoats, oil-repelling surfaces are everywhere. But the chemicals that make them slick, known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), have come under fire for their ...

Graphic illustrating MIT’s new platform for manipulating light on the nanoscale. Thin structures represent patterned chromium sulfide bromide, a layered quantum material with different optical ...

Exercise has well-established health benefits, yet its molecular underpinnings remain incompletely understood. A new study, led by researchers from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of ...

This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...