It catches very low frequency radio waves made by lightning, solar storms and charged particles moving through Earth’s ...

A virus that normally infects mice has produced Parkinson’s-like brain damage in rodents without any other intervention. In a ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

When it’s new, the battery in your phone or electric car works just fine. It charges, discharges, and recharges with smooth ...

Retired EV batteries are starting to get a second job: helping keep the lights on. A battery that can no longer push a car hundreds of miles may still have years of life left. Instead of sending it ...

Omar Yaghi has spent much of his life thinking about empty space. The Jordanian-born chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria—the gleaming wonder of the ancient world—was lost to the sea, its stones scattered across the ...

Periodontitis may begin in the narrow space between tooth and gum. But the immune response it sets off can reach far beyond the mouth. In periodontitis, bacteria around the teeth provoke an immune ...

‘I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to go swimming in the ancient oceans if these things were swimming around,’ one scientist said. Illustration: Hokkaido University. For centuries, humans have told ...

California has lost 60% of its coastal sand dunes since the mid-1800s, a new study shows. In addition to protecting coastal communities from flooding, dunes support a wide range of plants and animals.

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

A newly authenticated notebook from 22-year-old Mozart reveals unheard music and a rare glimpse of his lessons in Paris.