A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

Hidden in the night sky, just above the hump of Taurus, is a giant crystal ball that shows both the past and the future. This is the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514). To look at this orb's gauzy, white ...

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals.

Researchers in Japan have created a device that promises to boost computer processing speeds, without generating massive amounts of additional heat.

Skywatchers will be treated to a rare sight this month: a Blue Moon that is also a "micromoon." It marks the first time since ...

Researchers have built a miniaturized microcomb-driven terahertz wireless communication system that's 90 times smaller than conventional chips to deliver record-breaking data-transfer speeds at ...

Iran is experiencing "water bankruptcy" that stems from decades of broken water governance and aggressive policies, and the ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

The rocket explosion, a contender for the largest in American history, is a significant setback for Jeff Bezos and NASA.

A weird 20-legged machine could change how scientists think about the ideal robot form. For decades, roboticists have been ...

A single day of attacks on four Iranian oil refineries produced as much sulfur dioxide (SO 2) as a volcanic eruption, a new ...

Radio astronomer Emma Chapman explains why the radio view of the universe is so crucial to space exploration, astronomy, and ...