For decades, marine scientists have tried mimicking nature’s hydrodynamic brilliance. Seals, whales, and rays slice through water with uncanny efficiency. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), by ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

From “realm” to “swift,” a set of distinctly ChatGPT-esque words — dubbed “GPT words” by the researchers — are steadily ...

To achieve this, the researchers carefully tuned the cooling rate. A fast “thermal quench”—dropping the temperature at around ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

This smell has been reported before by people with hyper-sensitive noses, including a woman named Joy Milne who inspired this ...

To print microscopic structures, scientists need to inject a liquid material called a photoresist into the cell. This special ...

An AI robot performed gallbladder surgery without human help, and it worked every time. For over two decades, surgical robots ...

The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

The most alarming case may be West Antarctica, where more than 100 active volcanoes lie buried beneath the ice. One glacier ...

Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...