Beryllium, a rare element stars don't make, points to HD 129171 as a star that swallowed a planet worth at least 11 Earths of rock.

Brain scans show psychedelics and anesthesia push connectivity, efficiency, and complexity in opposite directions, offering clues to consciousness.

Researchers found plasticoral on Okinawa beaches, where heat-altered plastic had become fused with coral rubble in a strange new form of pollution.

Hubble captured NGC 4698, a strange spiral galaxy whose stars and gas rotate at right angles, revealing clues to a chaotic past.

Telegraph needles failed on a Devon railway during an 1848 magnetic storm, and the space weather record kept the wrong year.

Ancient teeth reveal that people in Sulawesi were using psychoactive betel nuts up to 25,000 years ago, long before farming ...

A new gene atlas of Norway spruce cones tracks the switch from branch to cone and turns up DAL55, a gene no one had described ...

Piano music helped young adults recover from stress faster than water sounds did, and brain scans traced a stronger signal from ear to body.

Brain recordings reveal a distinctive neural signature during the nearly thought-free state of pure awareness in Transcendental Meditation.

A DNA language model called GPN-Star learns from millions of years of evolution to flag the genetic variants most likely to ...

Copernicus figures show August matched July 2023 as the hottest month on record, with ocean heat and Europe's summer at new ...

Webb revealed that the complex weather on a distant, fast-spinning world can be explained by just two surprisingly simple patterns.