In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like sickle ...

We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police ...

Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar on 28 March 2025 caused widespread damage and over 3,800 fatalities, and also ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

Ursa Major III, the faintest object in our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light years. Until ...

Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

Using new techniques, Yale researchers have demonstrated the ability to use lasers to cool quantized vibrations of sound ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...

Apatite. Rhymes with appetite, and fittingly, plays a vital role in the very act of eating. Found in teeth and bones, apatite ...

A very rare and apparently very confused subtropical wood stork somehow found its way to the wilds of Wisconsin.