Record-Breaking Coral Death in The Great Barrier Reef Alarms Scientists

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing the rest of it has suffered a similar fate.

Birth Spurs a Surge in Brain Connectivity

Brain imaging of fetuses and infants reveals a rapid increase in functional brain connectivity at birth, aiding adaptation to the external world.

Emerging research suggests that we may absorb essential nutrients from the air we breathe, a concept now being explored under the term “aeronutrients.”

A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Has Been Detected in Human Brains

Scientists have identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain, revealing just how much we still have to learn about its mysterious inner workings.

Mysterious Signal Preceded The Most Powerful Eruption of Modern Times

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in the Tongan archipelago, erupted violently on January 15, 2022. According to a new study though, two faraway monitoring stations recorded a seismic wave some 15 minutes earlier.

NASA's IXPE Helps Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona.

Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

An easier-to-use technique for storing data in DNA is inspired by our cells

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.

Scientists Reveal a Shocking Solution to The Chicken or Egg Paradox

Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals.

World's largest prime number discovered

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text.

Astronomers discover ultra-dense 'super-Earth'

An international team has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest densities ever measured. 

World heading toward a 'data doomsday' as demand outstrips energy supply

New research by Loughborough University warns that global renewable electricity supply will be unable to meet the surging demand from digital data by 2025.

Mysterious Ultra-Massive Galaxies Spotted in Early Universe

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as our own Milky Way Galaxy - already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang.

New model calculates chances of intelligent beings in our Universe and beyond

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe - and in any hypothetical ones beyond it - can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. 

Mysterious Flashes In Merging Black Holes

In March 2021, astronomers observed a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy. Assigned the name AT 2021hdr, it was thought to be a supernova.