Restored Jin zhe si gourd earrings produced through experimental reconstruction. Credit: npj Heritage Science, 2026. A pair of Ming Dynasty earrings looked, at first glance, as if someone had spun ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere may have a dust problem—and that dust might be heating it up. A new study suggests that tiny charged grains near the Sun can change how energy moves through the corona, the ...

Tonight, as you drift toward sleep, your mind may begin to dream before your brain has officially crossed into sleep. You may ...

Anthropic wants to prove its chatbot can do more than write code or summarize documents. It wants Claude to help invent new drugs and treatments. At a San Francisco event on the 30th of June, 2026, ...

The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.

These giant machines break down manure and local food waste to produce biogas. This renewable natural gas, or RNG, is then typically transported for use as electricity, heating and fuel. But at Lent ...

A new study reveals that plague was lethal thousands of years ago, during the Neolithic.

The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people ...

Researchers have discovered a planet which, by all intents and purposes, should not be there. The world, coined WD 1856 b, is slightly larger than Jupiter and circles a dead star only about the size ...

In mice, scientists have now nudged that same emergency repair program onto a different path. By applying two growth signals ...

In this version of alternate history, Columbus set sail on his epic voyage to the Americas to prove to the world that the ...