Long ago, birds likely carried South American tomato seeds to the Galápagos Islands. Now, those island tomatoes are doing something strange—they’ve started producing a toxic ...

Emails rule modern life—from friendly check-ins to serious business. But when you hit “send,” what makes someone actually ...

Byungchul Kim (left) and Tsun-Hsuan "Johnson" Wang applied generative AI to improve robots designed by humans. Credits: MIT CSAIL Designing robot hardware is complex and slow because it involves many ...

DNA isn’t just for genetics anymore—it’s shaping up to be the ultimate storage device, especially for your photographs.

Now, scientists at the University of Sydney have made an exciting discovery: they’ve found a new brain protein linked to ...

In a feat of deep-tech engineering with global implications, scientists at the University of Sydney have cracked one of the ...

Underneath Mars’ dusty façade, rocks like Kenmore hold chemical time capsules that can reveal ancient planetary processes—if ...

In a major leap forward, researchers at the University of Geneva have discovered two proteins—MLF2 and RBM15—that play a key ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have captured compelling evidence of a planet with a mass similar to ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

Now, scientists have uncovered two new ancient species from the dinosaur era, beautifully preserved in amber. These fungi ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...