The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

The internet is often called a "network of networks," including those linking devices across homes, businesses, public spaces ...

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

A number of Roman wills reveal people leaving their heirs silver and gold in the form of bars, plates or ingots. Aside from ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...