Strange Discovery Finds Earth's Crust 'Dripping' Into The Planet's Belly

Crinkles and divots in the surface of Earth on Türkiye's Central Anatolian Plateau are the smoking gun for a newly discovered class of plate tectonics.

Scientists Grew Microbes in a Lab Experiment, And They Evolved a New Sense

Bacteria can develop a heightened new sensitivity to acid levels when exposed to different environmental extremes in the laboratory, a new study shows.

Quantum Entanglement Found in Top Quarks - The Heaviest Particles Known

At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world's largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just found entanglement in pairs of top quarks: the heaviest particles known to science.

Physicists Create One-Dimensional Photon Gas

In their experiments, German physicists observed the dimensional crossover from one to two dimensions in a harmonically trapped gas of photons (light particles) and studied its properties.

Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.

Skyscraper Tsunami Unleashed by Seismic Anomaly Never Seen Before

Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. The signal was unlike any previously recorded.

Mega El Ninos Could Have Inflamed Earth's Most Devastating Extinction

This 'Great Dying' appears to have been driven by a complex series of incidents, with a new study finding prolonged, intense climate fluctuations not unlike modern El Niños almost undoubtedly made a bad situation a lot worse.

A New Structure of Light Has Been Created: The Chiral Vortex

A completely new structure of light just dropped, called the chiral vortex – and the international team of scientists behind its creation says it could be crucial in developing new drugs and in accurately diagnosing diseases.

World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that's not accurate enough - nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up GPS and the internet.

Radical Theory Suggests Earthquakes Spark Gold Nuggets Into Existence

New findings by scientists in Australia could challenge what we thought we knew about the way gold nuggets bloom in vast reefs beneath our feet.

This Stunning Image Is The Highest Resolution We've Ever Seen Atoms

The image was made back in 2021 and those dots are the atoms in the crystal lattice of a piece of praseodymium orthoscandate (PrScO3), at a magnification of 100 million.

Strange New Species Found in Toxic Lake

In an incredibly inhospitable lake, scientists have discovered a new tiny species that forms huge colonies.

'Snowball Earth': The Best Evidence Yet May Have Just Been Found

Now, scientists have discovered evidence of Earth's transition from a tropical underwater world, writhing with photosynthetic bacteria, to a frozen wasteland – all preserved within the layers of giant rocks in a chain of Scottish and Irish islands.

Heaviest antimatter observation yet will fine-tune numbers for dark matter search

In experiments at the Brookhaven National Lab in the US, an international team of physicists has detected the heaviest “anti-nuclei” ever seen. 

1.2km drill core provides unique insight into Earth's mantle

Below the Earth's crust is our planet's thickest layer, the mantle, which influences many processes - such as volcanism, crust formation, and its magnetic field.