
Ocean Warming Threatens Earth's Most Abundant Microbe
The ocean's most abundant photosynthetic organism can't handle the heat. After analyzing 800 billion cells across a decade of research cruises, scientists have…
Sep 10, 2025

The ocean's most abundant photosynthetic organism can't handle the heat. After analyzing 800 billion cells across a decade of research cruises, scientists have…
Sep 10, 2025

The universe has served up a celestial feast of epic proportions. V Sagittae, a binary star system 10,000 light-years from Earth, features a white dwarf star…
Sep 10, 2025

A single shot could save Australia's koalas from extinction. After more than a decade of development, regulators have approved the world's first vaccine to…
Sep 10, 2025

Most of us assume scientists have mapped every corner of the human body by now. Turns out, they missed something big hiding in plain sight: massive DNA structures living in our mouths that could reshape how we think about oral health and disease.
Sep 10, 2025

That $2.99-per-pound "shark" fillet at your local grocery store might be hiding a troubling secret.
Sep 10, 2025

Oil companies funding museum exhibits. Pesticide makers sponsoring scientific conferences.
Sep 10, 2025

A thin slice of human tissue sits in a laboratory dish, surrounded by nothing but a soft gel.
Sep 10, 2025

The walls of your house might soon store electricity. Scientists have turned ordinary cement into a living battery by embedding electricity-generating bacteria that can power devices and regenerate themselves over time.
Sep 10, 2025

Cat whiskers can detect a breeze so gentle it barely moves dust. Now researchers have copied this biological marvel to create pressure sensors that could transform how athletes train and recover.
Sep 10, 2025

Runners don't motivate themselves to the finish line the way you'd think. When legs burn and lungs scream, they're not conjuring up inspirational reasons why they started running in the first place.
Sep 10, 2025

Dark matter might hold the key to spotting one of the universe's most spectacular shows.
Sep 10, 2025

The most sensitive molecular ruler on Earth just tightened its grip on a constant that underwrites modern physics.
Sep 9, 2025

In the dark waters between Los Angeles and Catalina Island, barrels of industrial waste continue to bleed into the sea.
Sep 9, 2025

Diet is not just fuel, it is instruction, and it can push biological age up or down.
Sep 9, 2025