Altermagnets are a newly recognized class of antiferromagnets whose magnetic structure behaves very differently from what is ...

Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the ...

Distinctive in taste and famously divisive, durian is not everyone's choice of fruit. This was certainly the case for some ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, ...

In October 2024, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch declared herself a "net zero skeptic," but "not a climate skeptic." Most ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.