Tonight, as you drift toward sleep, your mind may begin to dream before your brain has officially crossed into sleep. You may ...

In mice, scientists have now nudged that same emergency repair program onto a different path. By applying two growth signals ...

A super-resolution image of SpudCell’s liposomes with an encapsulated genome and active protein expression. Photograph: Orion Venero/Adamala Lab A tiny blob in a dish has pushed one of biology’s ...

The Congo River empties an average of 40,000 cubic meters of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA The Congo River is the second largest river in the world, releasing an average of 40 ...

A new technique will enable astrophysicists to study the strength of extreme gravity at the black hole’s horizon. Credit: Australian National University On a January morning in 2025, a ripple in the ...

If a robot can place car parts with microscopic precision on the assembly line, why shouldn’t it be able to shape a tooth for a dental crown? Engineers have imagined robots taking over some of ...

For billions of years, cells have perfected their biological machinery for making proteins, sending signals, and responding to their environment. Now scientists are learning how to program some of ...

A bizarre 212 million year old crocodile relative walked on two legs like a dinosaur, with a toothless beak and tiny arms.

In this version of alternate history, Columbus set sail on his epic voyage to the Americas to prove to the world that the ...

Every morning, Wordle asks millions of players to make a small leap into the lexical dark: five blank squares, six chances, ...

Dr Mike Thomson’s 1985 geological field notebook next to the dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. Credit: British ...

In a 519-person clinical trial, men taking VDPHL01 grew roughly four times as many new non-vellus hairs as men taking placebo ...