This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

Earlier research from Amato’s lab found that gut microbes from primates with larger brains produce more energy when ...

Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but this study reframes them as potent regulators of the ocean’s ...

Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...

Alex Marson of Gladstone and his collaborators at Stanford University developed a genomic mapping technique that helps close ...

Located about 39 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST system resembles a miniature version of our solar system: The star, an ultracool red dwarf, and all its planets would comfortably fit inside the ...

Drag and zoom to explore this new image of the Galactic Plane. Credit: ICRAR In a dazzling leap for cosmic cartography, astronomers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...

When powerful infrared light pulses hit a solid material, they can trigger ultra-fast effects, so fast they happen in attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second). These effects enable ...

The two Yunxian skulls used in the study were highly distorted, but Xijun Ni and his colleagues were able to reconstruct them using 3D modelling. ©Mr. Guanghui Zhao In the quiet bends of the Han River ...

For decades, metformin has been the go-to medication for type 2 diabetes, prescribed to millions worldwide. Yet despite its popularity, scientists have long puzzled over how exactly it works.

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 ...