Astronomers report a possible sighting of a primordial black hole, a decades-old idea for dark matter that has resurfaced as conventional searches keep coming up empty.
After a journey of roughly a billion kilometers, the spacecraft has closed to within 19 kilometers of the small asteroid Kamo'oalewa, setting the stage for an unprecedented sample-return attempt.
A new device from Harvard engineers uses electrical currents rather than harsh chemicals to build dozens of DNA strands at once, pointing toward safer, more accessible synthesis methods.
A new framework from Heidelberg University explains how quasiparticles can form even when a foreign particle is nearly frozen in place within a sea of fermions, reconciling two long-separate quantum models.
University of Hawai'i researchers document two healthy goblin sharks in their natural habitat, expanding the known range and depth limits of one of the ocean's most elusive predators.
Researchers at the University of Osaka used a neural network to compare competing ways of describing water's structure, offering a clearer path to understanding why the liquid behaves so strangely.
A study published in Nature Communications reveals the molecular "docking domains" bacteria use to assemble a family of anti-cancer compounds, offering a new blueprint for designing targeted cancer therapies in the lab.
An international team observed a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean shift and sink as magma erupted onto the seabed, offering a long-sought explanation for why these ridges produce so few earthquakes.
A genetic study of 132 people buried near Paris shows a Stone Age community was largely wiped out and replaced around 3000 BC, offering new clues to why megalithic construction ceased across Europe.
An international team at GSI/FAIR has built a machine learning tool called RHINE that dramatically cuts the computing power needed to model the nuclear reactions behind some of the universe's heaviest elements.
Researchers at TU Wien found evidence that particles inside a centimeter-scale "strange metal" crystal act as coordinated groups, showing that quantum entanglement is not limited to isolated atoms and photons.
An underwater observatory near Amsterdam Island recorded, in unprecedented detail, an April 2024 rifting event on the Southeast Indian Ridge that released about 160 million cubic metres of lava in just over two weeks.
Researchers used purely time-varying electronic components to mimic ultrafast rotation, observing a long-sought effect known as rotational super-radiance without any physical spinning.
Researchers have used reinforcement learning to let a quantum processor correct its own drifting hardware in real time, eliminating the need to pause computation for recalibration.
Researchers have determined the structure of an 8-million-dalton protein super-assembly that powers methane production in a key group of archaea, offering new insight into a major source of the greenhouse gas.
A new analysis of nearly 500 experimental effects shows GPT-4 predictions closely track real-world outcomes from large surveys, performing on par with pooled human forecasters.
A new artificial intelligence model called UCE creates a shared biological space for cells from any tissue or species, requiring no additional training to analyze new data.
Research published in Nature shows that a cell body-driven oscillation of actin and myosin, rather than growth cones sensing outside signals, determines which neurite becomes a neuron's single axon.
Analysis of more than 1,500 patients reveals 16 distinct chromatin-based subgroups of AML, offering new insight into the disease beyond genetic mutations alone.