An artist’s impression of Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua, the oldest compact pair of quasars ever observed. Quasars are actively feeding ...

Two enormous black holes existed surprisingly early.

Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have found the strongest evidence yet for one of nature’s rarest known ...

Even though sharks have a reputation in popular culture as being fearsome predators, the survey showed that 69 percent of ...

But a new genetic study suggests the reality is far more complex. Researchers analyzed DNA from 1,226 Tibetans living in the ...

Imagine reading a sentence. By the time you reach the final word, your brain is still holding onto the first few words long enough to make sense of the whole phrase. The same thing happens when you ...

At-home COVID-19 tests work because they use a clever molecular trick known as a sandwich assay. One molecule grabs the virus, another molecule grabs the same virus from a different side, and together ...

In the simulated image of the Earth's magnetic field, the solar wind comes from the right in the image and Kelvin-Helmholtz waves are visible at the top. The color indicates the density of the plasma.

This illustration depicts injectable nanoantennas being wirelessly activated by a magnetic field to generate localized electric fields that target a brain tumor. The magnified inset shows ...

For decades, scientists have been asking: how do we know that humans, not nature alone, are driving global warming? The answer lies in “fingerprints”, patterns of change across Earth’s climate system ...

Artist’s concept depicting Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet detected to date, still growing within the disk of gas and dust surrounding its young host star. Material from the disk is actively ...