For nearly a century, physicists have worked with a comfortable assumption: dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the Universe's expansion, remains constant across cosmic time.
Oct 2, 2025
The human immune system, when fighting HIV, sometimes resembles a panicked security guard shooting at both intruders and innocent bystanders.
Oct 2, 2025
Astronomers have caught a young rogue planet in the midst of an unprecedented eating binge, consuming six billion tons of gas and dust every second in what represents the fastest growth rate ever measured for any kind of planet.
Oct 2, 2025
The virus that swept through Uganda in 2022 hasn't finished with its survivors. More than half still battle debilitating symptoms two years later, and researchers have detected viral traces lurking in body fluids months after people supposedly recovered.
Oct 2, 2025
Parents who thought their children were in the clear after recovering from COVID-19 may need to reconsider.
Oct 1, 2025
When marine biologists pull a beached dolphin from Florida's Indian River Lagoon, they are increasingly finding something unexpected: brains riddled with the same toxic proteins that destroy human minds in Alzheimer's disease.
Oct 1, 2025
The universe's first stars might not have been stars at all, at least not in the way we understand them.
Oct 1, 2025
A diabetes drug you can pick up at any pharmacy, combined with an over-the-counter antihistamine, might help rebuild the protective coating around nerves damaged by multiple sclerosis.
Oct 1, 2025
For the first time, researchers have directly observed the tiny protein clusters believed to kickstart Parkinson's disease in human brain tissue, a development one scientist likens to seeing stars during the day.
Oct 1, 2025
The cancer treatment that has saved countless blood cancer patients might finally work against the tumors that kill most people.
Oct 1, 2025
The fungal kingdom has been quietly rewriting Earth's early history. New research from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology reveals that fungi…
Oct 1, 2025
Forget the nasal swabs. A team of German researchers has developed a molecular sensor that releases the taste of thyme when it encounters influenza virus in…
Oct 1, 2025
Those doctors who once prescribed seaside visits for healing may have been onto something.
Oct 1, 2025
Scientists at Princeton University have developed an artificial intelligence system that can reconstruct missing sensor data in fusion energy experiments, and it might provide even more detail than the original measurements could capture.
Oct 1, 2025
