The Mithaka people have a rich archaeological record that highlights the deep importance of plants in everyday life. Our ...

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.

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

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

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

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

Periods of sustained warming can last for weeks to months at a time, with a distinct marine heatwave embedded between them and significant implications for estuarine ecosystems and habitats like ...

“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 ...

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 ...