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August 19, 2026 — A small spacecraft could one day sweep past the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and Mars’s moon Phobos while using a single...

Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year New Innovators Award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to investigate...

A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation is launching a four-year investigation into one of evolution’s most consequential but least predictable...

A molecular switch linking two key chromatin regulators may help explain why cells in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) age at extraordinary speed. In a study...

A material made from waste biomass could help transform one of wastewater treatment’s most promising technologies, according to a new review published in Biochar. Researchers...

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM) have identified a mechanism that...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast ocean conveyor that moves warm...

Cancer’s deadliest move is often not the growth of the original tumor, but its ability to travel. Metastasis, the spread of malignant cells from a...

For a blue mussel, eating can be a dangerous business. The animal survives by filtering seawater through its body, extracting microscopic algae and other particles...

A new study reports a way to switch on strong light–matter coupling inside a semiconductor terahertz cavity almost instantaneously, opening a path toward optical devices...

A new strategy for building carbon–carbon bonds could give synthetic chemists a more precise way to modify one of the most common structural motifs in...

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, remains one of the world’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases, despite decades of mass drug administration and major reductions...

Citizen science is moving into one of biology’s most complex frontiers: the human microbiome, the vast community of bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses and other microscopic...

A new generation of light-controlled medical electronics could make temporary neural interfaces less invasive and easier to control. In a study published in Nature Electronics,...

Dopamine has long been cast as the brain’s “motivation molecule,” a chemical messenger that helps shape reward, learning, movement and the effort people are willing...