Science

Put a drop of nutrient solution on this cloth and, a few days later, fine fuzz has grown exactly where the drop landed. Its makers have written their institute's logo that way, along with snowflakes,…

Pull on a rubber band and nothing interesting happens at the molecular level; the chains just uncoil. The materials described in a new paper answer force with a decision. The building blocks are…

At 4:51 a.m. on Saturday, some North Islanders got a few seconds of notice that most earthquakes never give. Their phones buzzed loudly, overriding silent mode, a heartbeat before the ground began to…

The brain runs on roughly the wattage of a dim light bulb. A large AI model can draw the output of a small power plant. That gap is the quiet motivation behind a whole field of research, and behind a…

The hardest part was never the motor. It was the listening. When a person's hand still works, the brain sends a clean order down the nerves and the muscles snap to it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…

Researchers at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) have demonstrated a single-photon source that operates at room temperature and plugs into ordinary 220-volt power,…

Patient enrolment began on 2 July 2026 in the first-ever clinical trial of treatments for Bundibugyo virus disease, opening at treatment sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri province…

Orcas in the Gulf of California have been filmed using a hunting tactic scientists had never formally recorded: one whale grips a sharptail sunfish by the tail while a second accelerates in and rams…

Snakes are a paradox of the fossil record. There are more than 4,000 species alive today, slithering through deserts, rivers, treetops and soil on every continent but Antarctica, one of evolution's…

The lesions were the easy part. For more than a decade, biologists had watched brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memphremagog turn up with patches of blackened, malignant skin; by 2014, nearly one in…

In a volcanic corner of northeastern Catalonia, a good deal of the local disaster history had never lived in any single place. Some of it sat in government seismic catalogues. Some was buried in a…

Borderline personality disorder is one of the most stigmatized diagnoses in psychiatry, and one of the least often described in terms of biology. People living with it experience intense, unstable…