A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives clues about how visual perception works. | Continue reading
Scientists build the world's first 6G antenna that, when fitted into devices, can transmit data at high speeds. | Continue reading
The sword is the first weapon from the Islamic period to be found in the Spanish city of Valencia. | Continue reading
Submillimeter wavelength radio observations of the Southern Ring Nebula have identified that it's actually a double ring, shaped by the interactions of three stars. | Continue reading
Mars has had frequent planet-wide auroras in recent months, including an unprecedented trio of events in February. Experts say the sudden increase is the result of the ongoing solar maximum. | Continue reading
A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consciousness. | Continue reading
A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to probe some of the most poorly understood aspects of the quantum world. | Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Corporation has built its Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle, which will operate long-duration missions and carry payloads into the ocean depths in partnership with DARPA. | Continue reading
Up to 50 "shooting stars" per hour may be visible in moonless skies as the Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks Saturday and Sunday (May 4 and 5). The annual shower is linked to debris from Halley's comet. | Continue reading
In recent experiments, rat brain cells filled in for lost neurons in mouse brains, raising new possibilities for growing donor tissues across species. | Continue reading
Researchers say a villa buried by the eruption in A.D. 79 corresponds with records of the Roman emperor's death in A.D. 14. | Continue reading
Prehistoric cold viruses are hard to find in the historical record, but scientists have unearthed some evidence in ancient human teeth. | Continue reading
Scientists have detected a new, unusually large molecule never seen in space before. The 13-atom molecule, called 2-methoxyethanol, was detected in the Cat's Paw Nebula. | Continue reading
Doctors say it's very unusual to develop a visual impairment as the first symptom of lung cancer. | Continue reading
Captured in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, the star-forming Horsehead Nebula is located 1,300 light-years away in the Orion Constellation. | Continue reading
Chinese astronomers have shared the most detailed geological map of the moon ever created, revealing more than 12,000 structures. The new atlas will be essential for picking out landing locations and resource sites for future lunar missions. | Continue reading
Arabica coffee plant appears to have evolved between 600,000 and 1 million years ago after two other coffee species crossbred in the forests of what is now Ethiopia. | Continue reading
Scientists in Japan have transferred data at 100 gigabits per second in high-frequency wavelength bands over a distance of 330 feet for the first time. | Continue reading
Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable. | Continue reading
Scientists have yet to reach the bottom of the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, which new measurements hint could be connected to a labyrinth of submarine caves and tunnels. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists helped identify more than 1,000 never-before-seen solar system objects from old Hubble images spanning two decades. | Continue reading
Auditory pareidolia is a phenomenon in which people can hear familiar sounds from seemingly static background noise. | Continue reading
Scientists have designed a physical qubit that behaves as an error-correcting "logical qubit," and now they think they can scale it up to make a useful quantum computer using a few hundred. | Continue reading
A satellite image of the Galápagos Islands' La Cumbre volcano shows lava seeping from the iguana-covered mountain days into an ongoing, months-long eruption. | Continue reading
An allergist and immunologist explains the link between eczema and pollutants found in synthetic fabric, cigarette smoke and wildfires. | Continue reading
The great planetary instability, which saw Jupiter and the other gas giants wander chaotically through the solar system, coincides with the collision that formed Earth's moon. Could the two events be linked? | Continue reading
Astronomers celebrated the Hubble Space Telescope's 34th anniversary with this stunning image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula — a vast cloud of gas containing one of the hottest white dwarf stars ever found. | Continue reading
Ultraviolet has very short and energetic wavelengths that are shorter than violet on the visible spectrum. But can people see UV? | Continue reading
Satellite images capture striking differences between the 2017 and 2024 total solar eclipses that swept across North America, including variations in the moon's shadow along the path of totality. | Continue reading
Bizarre worm that looks "like the rump of a pig from one side and Mick Jagger's lips from the other" may be in the middle of an evolutionary leap, scientists say. | Continue reading
Lasers have helped uncover ancient human-made structures the world over. | Continue reading
What's the science behind starting a fire with flint and steel? | Continue reading
An environmental DNA analysis of soil collected at an ancient Maya ball court reveals that the site was once part of a ritual. | Continue reading
In a group effort, scientists from all over the world came together to create a detailed map of the genetic causes behind PTSD. | Continue reading
More than 50% of the patients who used a new mouth-spray-based vaccine didn't have a UTI for up to nine years. | Continue reading
A new blood test could determine whether someone will develop knee osteoarthritis up to eight years before structural damage is picked up by an X-ray. | Continue reading
Amazon is offering 48% off the versatile fitness tracker-come-smartwatch, so long as you like pink or black. | Continue reading
Archaeologists in southern France have excavated an ancient Roman cemetery containing 1,430 graves and traces of a funerary festival, during which families feasted by the graves of relatives. | Continue reading
It's not known who was buried in the tomb, but one expert says it was probably the Chu state ruler. | Continue reading
Archaeologists used lidar to detect a cluster of rare Neolithic monuments hidden in farmland in Ireland. | Continue reading
Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects (like the universe) seemingly cannot. | Continue reading
Goldene is the latest 2D material to be made since graphene was first created in 2004. | Continue reading
Researchers used AI to decipher an ancient papyrus that includes details about where Greek philosopher is buried. | Continue reading
Amazon are slashing $80 off this fantastic running watch at right now, which boasts two weeks of battery life. | Continue reading
Mercedes-Benz has sold at least one of its new vehicles fitted with its Drive Pilot autonomous driving software, which lets you take your hands off the steering wheel and your eyes off the road. | Continue reading
Every spring, creepy black 'spiders' sprout up on Mars as buried carbon dioxide ice releases dusty geysers of gas. New ESA images show the phenomenon has begun in the strange Inca City formation. | Continue reading
The EHang EH216-S autonomous flying taxi is the first eVTOL ready for mass production and could lead the way for flying cars around the world. | Continue reading
In a medical first, doctors transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient after giving her a new heart pump. | Continue reading