When they’re destroyed, as in injuries or autoimmune diseases like neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, the brain’s ...

Movement stability decreases with decreasing gravity. It gets harder to control complex tasks using both hands autonomously. Instead of maintaining the intention patterns, participants often drifted ...

GW Orionis, a triple-star system boasting bizarre rings of dust misaligned with their orbits high in the constellation Orion, has captivated astronomers for years. Rather than lying in the same flat ...

Neandertals were stronger than modern humans, with large muscles, heavy brow ridges, and squat tooth roots. The pituitary ...

The “ShiftLens” design and fabrication system creates objects that change their surface appearance based on user interactions.

One of Pluto’s most striking landmarks is Sputnik Planitia, a massive glacier filled with frozen nitrogen ice. It covers more ...

Stunning new Sun images reveal a long-predicted solar phenomenon.

A false-color electron microscope image shows the devices. Using the new scalable fabrication technique, researchers fabricated more than 1,000 devices using sub-nanometer molecular layers. Credit: ...

Modern gadgets, from smartphones to medical sensors, depend on materials that can mediate and manipulate electrical energy at ...

Nitrogen gas (𝑁2) is everywhere; it makes up nearly 80% of Earth’s atmosphere, but its triple bond is so strong that most ...

UC Berkeley researchers have found fossil evidence that animals from different latitudes of North America and South America mixed long before the Panamanian land bridge permanently linked the two ...

Black holes are often imagined as bottomless pits, swallowing everything that dares to cross their path. But new observations of a dramatic outburst from the black hole system Swift J1727.8−1613 ...