Plants make chemical weapons to protect themselves, and many of these compounds have become vital to human medicine. Researchers found that one powerful plant chemical is produced using a gene that ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

Researchers have found that manganese, an abundant and inexpensive metal, can be used to efficiently convert carbon dioxide ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed ...

A new brain imaging study reveals that remembering facts and recalling life events activate nearly identical brain networks.

Even in some of the most isolated corners of the Pacific, plastic pollution has quietly worked its way into the food web. A large analysis of fish caught around Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu found ...

Chronic stress can damage the gut’s protective lining, triggering inflammation that may worsen depression. New research shows that stress lowers levels of a protein called Reelin, which plays a key ...

MMS has long been promoted as a miracle cure, but new research shows it’s essentially a toxic disinfectant. While it can kill ...

As demand for critical metals grows, scientists have taken a rare, close look at life on the deep Pacific seabed where mining ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

New research reveals a forgotten side of medieval Christianity—one rooted not in cathedrals, but in fields, forests, and ...