Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans opt for LASIK, a laser-assisted surgery that reshapes the cornea to correct vision. It’s fast, effective, and widely considered safe. But it’s still ...

Think saliva is spit? Think again. This slippery superhero helps you chew, swallow, fight germs, and keep your teeth and gums happy. It’s packed with special ingredients, like mucins, that act like ...

Origami gives engineers a toolkit of foldable 3D shapes that can change form and function. These structures can shift between folded states and adjust their strength and behavior; this is useful for ...

This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken on 18 January 2026 with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large ...

Scientists reveal how one of the world's deadliest superbugs evolved.

The Soviet PFM-1, also known as the butterfly mine for its winged shape, was designed with chilling precision. Dropped from ...

Illustration of the giant planets TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c with host star TOI-791. These planets are roughly the size of ...

IBM has unveiled the world’s first chip technology that scales below one nanometer, a feat once thought impossible, now realized at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node. This fingernail-sized marvel ...

The planet has a minimum mass just over twice that of Earth and orbits its star at a distance that causes it to receive almost the same amount of starlight as Earth does. The planet joins a growing ...

The number of satellites in orbit around Earth has exploded from fewer than 8,000 satellites before 2019 to over 14,000 now. Many are from SpaceX’s own Starlink network, which a ...