Imagine a country with no rivers, no freshwater lakes, and no springs. Now, pack 65,000 people onto it. Add half a million ...

“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

A new light-based sensor detects cancer markers at near-zero concentrations.

Nguyen and her team solved this by designing a version of their molecule that remains liquid at room temperature. It requires ...

Most vaccines work like a “wanted” poster. They show the immune system a specific feature of a microbe so it can recognize ...

The woman, who lived about 2,500 years ago, was around 25 to 30 years old at the time of her death. Archaeologists found her lying on her side on a wooden bed inside a larch log burial chamber. She ...

Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.

A new paper provides the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this is about more than bees.

For much of modern biology, scientists argued that viruses are not alive, pointing to a basic limitation: they cannot make proteins on their own and must depend entirely on the cells they infect for ...

Among the most feared are the so-called ESKAPE pathogens, a rogues’ gallery of microbes that “escape” many treatments and drive stubborn hospital-acquired infections. One of them, Acinetobacter ...