How an Ancient Fossil Rewrote Freshwater Fish Hearing
A newly described fossil has upended long-held ideas about how freshwater fish evolved sensitive hearing. By combining f...
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How a Solar-Powered Retinal Chip Is Restoring Sight
Imagine reading a book again after years of blurred letters and blank spots. For several patients with age-related macul...
What Keeps Spaghetti Intact? The Science of Gluten
Why does ordinary spaghetti survive a furious boil while some gluten-free brands collapse into sticky fragments? New res...
Poisoned AI: Hidden Data Attacks Threaten Global Trust
AI systems are built on mountains of data, and that reliance is both their strength and their vulnerability. New researc...
Glowing Sugars Reveal How Ocean Microbes Store Carbon
Researchers have developed a fluorescent molecular probe that lights up when marine sugars are broken down, allowing sci...
Meet Khankhuuluu: The Dragon Prince of Tyrannosaurs
A newly identified dinosaur named Khankhuuluu — literally “dragon prince” in Mongolian — offers the clearest glimpse yet...
Could Your Digital Twin Monitor and Treat Your Mind?
Imagine a virtual version of yourself that learns from your sleep patterns, heart rate and daily behaviour — not just to...
The 900°C Furnace That Forged Earth's Stable Continents
Deep within Earth's crust, temperatures exceeding 900°C rewired the planet’s chemistry and mechanics, producing the firs...
Tiny Sound-Guided Microrobots: Swarm, Adapt, and Heal
Researchers have shown that sound waves can be used to coordinate fleets of tiny robots that behave like living collecti...
Mini Human Livers Predict Who Will Suffer Drug Injury
Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, in partnership with Roche, have built a miniaturized human ...
Atomic Clock for Fossils: Dinosaur Eggs Dated to 85 Ma
New direct dates for dinosaur eggs from QinglongshanFor the first time, researchers have directly dated fossilized dinos...
Water Behaves as Solid and Liquid Under Confinement
Unusual Hybrid State of Water RevealedWater is familiar in everyday life, but at the nanoscale it reveals surprising pha...
High-Speed Sensors Reveal How Pianists Shape Timbre
High-speed sensors convert artistic touch into measurable timbre controlHigh-speed sensing technology has delivered long...
Nobel Prize 2025: The Rise of Porous Crystal Frameworks
Nobel recognition for porous crystalsThree scientists — Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University o...
242-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites Lepidosaur Evolution
A well-preserved Triassic reptile challenges assumptions about early lizardsLepidosaurs—the group that today includes li...
112-Million-Year-Old Insects Found in Ecuador Amber
Discovery: a window into a 112-million-year-old forestNew amber deposits uncovered in a quarry in Ecuador have preserved...
Protein Nanowire Artificial Neuron Mimics Brain Signals
Engineers build an artificial neuron that speaks the brain's electrical languageResearchers at the University of Massach...
China Tests Effects of Three Rapid-Fire Nuclear Strikes
Chinese military researchers recently published a startling laboratory study that models what would happen if the same t...
New Quantum Timestamping Using Rydberg Wave Patterns
(Loren Zemlicka/Moment/Getty Images)In classical physics, measuring time is straightforward: start a clock at "then" and...
World’s Oldest Dome-Head Dinosaur Found: Zavacephale
Discovery and naming of a 108-million-year-old pachycephalosaurIn the eastern Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a remarkably comp...