Venus is unique among the inner planets. Earth has the Moon, Mars has two small satellites, and even Mercury may once have had companions that the Sun’s gravity stripped away. But Venus today is ...

Although controlled experiments offer promise for improving weather forecasts, progress in real-world applications has been ...

The bright points are radio-emitting galaxies and other compact sources, whose emission is much stronger than the faint ...

When a star drifts too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces can rip it apart in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered compelling evidence of massive black holes in the ...

For over ten years, scientists have put forward two different explanations for one of the ocean’s more unusual trends: the increase in squid numbers between 1970 and 2010. A recent modeling study now ...

Participants were randomly assigned to either standard treatment or immediate monitoring for 14 days using a small, waterproof, leadless device that continuously recorded their heart rhythms. In the ...

Emails rule modern life—from friendly check-ins to serious business. But when you hit “send,” what makes someone actually write back? Scientists have long studied what helps a request succeed, like ...

Every year, millions of tons of sulfur quietly pile up as waste from petroleum refining. For decades, this yellow element has been treated as little more than an industrial by-product. But now, a team ...

Snakebite envenoming is a severe and neglected tropical disease that kills ~100,000 people yearly. A high-quality, genome-enabled, comprehensive portrayal of toxin genes will encourage the development ...

The Regional Cabled Array spans the entire Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, from the Oregon coast to the summit of Axial Seamount 300 miles offshore. Credit: University of Washington Axial Seamount, an ...

Spacetime, the invisible fabric stitching the universe together, could actually be far more complex than previously believed. Long ago, Einstein gave us a set of equations describing how stars and ...