An artist’s impression of Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua, the oldest compact pair of quasars ever observed. Quasars are actively feeding ...

Two enormous black holes existed surprisingly early.

At-home COVID-19 tests work because they use a clever molecular trick known as a sandwich assay. One molecule grabs the virus, another molecule grabs the same virus from a different side, and together ...

But a new genetic study suggests the reality is far more complex. Researchers analyzed DNA from 1,226 Tibetans living in the ...

Even though sharks have a reputation in popular culture as being fearsome predators, the survey showed that 69 percent of ...

Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have found the strongest evidence yet for one of nature’s rarest known ...

Why does a meal feel more enjoyable in a restaurant with carefully chosen music? According to new research, it may not be just about the atmosphere. The music itself could be changing how your brain ...

Imagine reading a sentence. By the time you reach the final word, your brain is still holding onto the first few words long enough to make sense of the whole phrase. The same thing happens when you ...

A laboratory tank with a small striped fish may appear as if it is light years away from the complicated workings of the human brain. However, a recent study indicates that there are biological roots ...

MIT engineers developed a soft robot that can flap through water in response to flashes of light. Credits: Photo: Melanie Gonick, MIT At first glance, it looks more like a sliver of transparent gel ...

This image shows back-to-back jets produced in the quark-gluon plasma formed when two oxygen nuclei collide at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The jet near the edge of the plasma, upper ...