Commerical self-driving cars are no longer a fantasy. Tens of thousands of paying customers are trusting them for rides on congested city streets.
The sea surface temperature in the Fijian archipelago in the southwestern Pacific is now at its maximum for more than 600 years.
The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe.
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.
The study sheds light on the widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals that could be detected in human samples, such as urine, blood, and breast milk.
Recent science is showing plant communication systems may be more complex than we imagined.
The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar.
A full DNA computer is a step closer, thanks to a new technology that could store petabytes of data in DNA for thousands or even millions of years. The system can also process data, as demonstrated by solving sudoku puzzles.
Neuroscientists scanned the brain of a pregnant woman and captured a 'widespread reorganization' of her brain before, during and after pregnancy.
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.
During its flyby of Earth on 20 August, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) found ingredients for life in Earth's atmosphere - the so-called ‘CHNOPS’ elements (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and sulphur).
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.
The hidden Mars structures are mysterious because they appear to be significantly denser than their surroundings.
The only way to deal with this is to prepare for a situation with a much higher likelihood of unprecedented extreme events, already in the next one to two decades.
Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. The signal was unlike any previously recorded.
