Forget your umbrella, today’s weather forecast comes not from Earth, but from a blazing rogue planet adrift in the cosmos. SIMP-0136, a lonely world without a parent star, has just delivered one of ...

Sexual behavior often begins with a kind of biological ‘dance’, courtship signals, and physical changes that get both partners ready. In males, this might mean an erection; in females, it’s a sign of ...

The two Yunxian skulls used in the study were highly distorted, but Xijun Ni and his colleagues were able to reconstruct them using 3D modelling. ©Mr. Guanghui Zhao In the quiet bends of the Han River ...

A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Credit Yaakov Weiss The chemical mood of Earth’s mantle, its ...

Subthreshold depression (StD) is a mild form of depression, not strong enough for a clinical diagnosis, but still a warning sign for future mental health issues. Think of it as being on the edge of ...

For decades, metformin has been the go-to medication for type 2 diabetes, prescribed to millions worldwide. Yet despite its popularity, scientists have long puzzled over how exactly it works.

Caption:“Our system can turn a seemingly static, abstract image into an attention-catching animation,” says MIT PhD student Ticha Sethapakdi, a lead researcher on the FabObscura project. “The tool ...

These days, over 75% of professionals use AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to polish their work emails. It’s like having a digital writing assistant on call. But here’s the twist: A ...

Peptides and antibodies are powerful medicines, but they tend to clump together (aggregate), which weakens their effect. To stay stable, they need to be cold and dilute, not ideal when high doses are ...

Despite decades of debate, a new international study may have finally cracked the mystery behind gender gaps in mathematics, and it doesn’t point to biology or bias at birth. Instead, the culprit may ...

Emojis serve as modern digital tools that enhance text-based communication by adding emotional and visual context. Rooted in long-standing interpersonal practices, they help compensate for the lack of ...

In neuroscience, a lingering mystery remains: how do specific protein tweaks help direct the formation of synaptic connections by brain cells? A key suspect is polyubiquitination, a process that tags ...