Chemical evidence from a stalagmite in Mexico has revealed that the Classic Maya civilization’s decline coincided with repeated severe wet-season droughts, including one that lasted 13 years. These ...

Arizona State University scientists have unveiled NasRED, a revolutionary one-drop blood test that can detect diseases like COVID-19, Ebola, HIV, and Lyme with incredible speed and precision. Using ...

A curious red Martian rock nicknamed Sapphire Canyon has scientists excited, as its spotted appearance hints at possible ...

Researchers have found a clever way to make quantum dots, tiny light-emitting crystals, produce streams of perfectly controlled photons without relying on expensive, complex electronics. By using a ...

Captured at a location called “Falbreen,” this 360-degree view mosaic was stitched together 96 images that were acquired May ...

Weaver ants have cracked a teamwork puzzle that humans have struggled with for over a century — instead of slacking off as ...

In a Puerto Rican coffee farm, researchers uncovered a web of chaotic interactions between three ant species and a predator ...

Hubble has captured the faint beauty of NGC 45, a spiral galaxy in Cetus whose glowing pink star-forming clouds reveal hidden ...

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

Denisovans, a mysterious human relative, left behind far more than a handful of fossils—they left genetic fingerprints in ...

Cornell engineers have built the first fully integrated “microwave brain” — a silicon microchip that can process ultrafast data and wireless signals at the same time, while using less than 200 ...