One of the large, 1.4-million-year-old footprints that the team excavated. A 6-inch (~15 cm) ruler is shown for scale. Credit ...

A Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf could become the first confirmed moon beyond our Solar System.

NASA ’s Curiosity rover has encountered an enormous field of honeycomb-shaped fractures while climbing through a Martian ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes ...

Whale sharks inhabit tropical seas where prey is often scarce and unevenly distributed, forcing them to adjust continually as ...

A single photon carrying quantum information had to travel more than 24 kilometers through an optical fiber already crowded ...

A baby can inherit one healthy copy of TBX5 and still develop serious heart defects if the other copy does not work. That genetic imbalance is one cause of congenital heart disease, the most common ...

Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the ...

A new mouse study from Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising energy imbalance during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

“We demonstrated a so-called universal gate set—meaning that if you store information in these emergent versions of quarks, and you move them around, you can do any quantum computation you might want ...

Published in Scientific Reports, the study found that variation in gut bacteria accounted for about 15% of the differences in participants’ biological aging rates. The results indicate that the gut ...

Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models. Recent examples include OpenAI’s disproof of the unit distance conjecture, and ...