Science

UCLA researchers discover that creatine, the popular workout supplement, fuels dendritic cells that direct killer T cells to attack tumors, potentially making immunotherapy effective for more...

TU Wien researchers detect quantum entanglement in a hand-sized strange metal crystal using quantum Fisher information, bridging quantum physics and macroscopic materials for ultra-precise sensors.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reverse-engineered a primordial nitrogen-fixing enzyme, showing ancient nitrogenases produced the same isotopic signatures as modern versions, offering a...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered that a protein called MTCH2, nicknamed Mitch, acts as a master switch for fat burning in human cells — potentially paving the way for a...

University of Minnesota scientists create Spud Cell, the world's first synthetic cell built entirely from non-living chemical components that can feed, grow, replicate, and undergo Darwinian...

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft will buzz asteroid Torifune at 5.3 km/s from just 1 km away on July 5, testing autonomous navigation and planetary defense technologies 11 years after launch.

Astronomers may have witnessed one of the rarest and most dramatic cosmic events ever recorded — a long-sought intermediate-mass black hole ripping apart a dense white dwarf star and devouring it in...

The Breakthrough: AI-Designed Super-Antigen For the first time in medical history, a vaccine whose active component was designed entirely by artificial intelligence has been tested in humans — and it.

Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a solid-state molecular material that converts ordinary visible sunlight into high-energy ultraviolet light, unlocking new possibilities for...

Researchers backed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have achieved a major breakthrough in cell-free biomanufacturing — modular...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created printed artificial neurons that do not just imitate the brain — they can successfully communicate with it. In a landmark study published in the journa.

Scientists have developed a breakthrough solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating the environmentally damaging brine waste that plagues...

Shocking Link Between Common Herbicide and Antibiotic Resistance Researchers have found that glyphosate, the world's most widely used weedkiller and the active ingredient in products like...

A Dormant Cosmic Giant from the Dawn of Time An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant dormant supermassive black hole ever detected, a sleeping giant weighing...

A Lost Leaf from One of History's Most Important Manuscripts A long-lost leaf from the Archimedes Palimpsest, one of the world's most important ancient manuscripts, has been rediscovered at...

A Space Telescope in Peril NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory — a space telescope that has revolutionised our understanding of gamma-ray bursts and high-energy cosmic phenomena — is falling to...

Nature's Anti-Aging Butterfly Scientists have discovered that Heliconius butterflies — a tropical genus found throughout South and Central America — have evolved extraordinary anti-aging mechanisms...

Scientists have achieved the first precise genome editing of human embryos using an advanced CRISPR technique, published in Nature on June 5, 2026.

Scientists may have uncovered what really triggers Alzheimer's disease, and the answer challenges decades of conventional thinking.

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have made an accidental discovery that could fundamentally change our understanding of how the kidneys work: a previously unknown backup system that helps the...

In a landmark study published in Nature on June 22, 2026, researchers at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Gladstone Institutes have engineered a...

Scientists have developed a new DNA testing approach that can diagnose rare genetic diseases that standard genetic tests routinely miss, according to research published this week.

In a breakthrough that has been decades in the making, scientists have finally identified the root cause of inflammatory bowel disease IBD, a chronic condition affecting millions worldwide...

Astronomers using data from the XRISM X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission space telescope, a collaboration between NASA and JAXA, may be closing in on a long-standing cosmic mystery: why...

A new technique developed by researchers could solve one of the biggest challenges in making future computer chips from ultrathin materials.

The mystery of Planet Nine — a hypothetical giant planet thought to lurk far beyond Neptune — has taken a new turn as recent discoveries challenge the existing theory.

In a breakthrough that could transform biomedical manufacturing, NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir successfully harvested blood stem cells aboard the International Space St...

In a breakthrough that could transform the fight against environmental pollution, researchers have discovered that hydrogen radicals generated by intense ultraviolet light ...

Monash University researchers have discovered that a copper-based drug called Cu ATSM can significantly reduce toxic Alzheimer's proteins and restore memory, according to a ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising backup pathway that allows cells to make a crucial amino acid when their primary production system fails — revealing a hidden cellul...