A gut bacterium may be quietly fueling depression through an unexpected chemical twist. Researchers found that when Morganella morganii interacts with a common pollutant, it produces a molecule that ...

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped ...

In the chaotic first moments after the Big Bang, ripples in spacetime may have done more than just echo through the ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Giant, fearsome octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas, according to new research that flips the script on their ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By ...

Microplastics are floating through the atmosphere and spreading across the globe, but their true origins have been ...

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar ...