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

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

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

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

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 ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Little red dots were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) shortly after the spacecraft began collecting ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.