Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

Integrating light-harvesting materials with non-photosynthetic microbes offers a promising route to convert sunlight into chemicals. However, many existing biohybrid systems lack a clear architectural...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

Biological aging clocks offer estimations of aging and dementia, yet scalability is limited. We introduce a large-scale, cross-national speech clock derived from 2928 individuals across five Latin Ame...

How politics, bad timing, and skepticism left foundation stones of modern physics unrecognized

1. Iced coffee is on your car insurance. 2. You’ve met iced coffee’s dad, who’s nice, and iced coffee’s mom, who can be a real jackass. 3. You and iced coffe...

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

The CD1 system responds to lipids, not proteins, driving reactions to bee stings, bacteria, and possibly poison ivy

The eruption of Vesuvius volcano witnessed by Pliny the Younger in 79 CE is dated by the argon-40/argon-39 (40Ar/39Ar) method to 1938 ± 13 years (SD) before measurement in 2025 CE. Achievement of 0.7%...

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Mineral dust affects Earth’s energy budget, clouds, and biochemistry, yet the evolution of the global dust cycle in recent decades remains shrouded in uncertainty. Here we reconstruct the global dust ...

Seismic activity around the Punggye-ri test site has increased since a large nuclear explosion in 2017

Biliverdin is one of the few endogenous green pigments in animals, yet its use in camouflage and fluorescence is limited by rapid degradation or excretion. Multiple arboreal frogs have overcome this c...

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By mimicking how insects peer side to side, robots can now see through occlusions in real time.

Record-breaking “odyssey” suggests populations of these highly endangered carnivores are more connected than thought

On this week’s show: How to implement the results of education research at a global scale, and whether mind-altering rituals drove pre-Inca societies to new heights

Fifty years ago, research into human retroviruses yielded unexpected findings

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

Climate change and fire suppression are intensifying wildfires, prompting fuel reduction treatments that will generate gigatonnes of waste biomass residues in the near term. We evaluate the potential ...

Global cooperation revealed a landslide, not a glacial collapse, likely initiated the cascade of events

The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain, wind ...

When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...