Far beneath Earth’s surface, two enormous structures lie hidden at the edge of the planet’s molten core. These formations, each thousands of kilometers wide, aren’t just geological oddities—they might ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

A newly identified virus–cell hybrid structure allows viruses to spread faster and more aggressively by hitching a ride on ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

As people around the world marveled in July at the most detailed pictures of the cosmos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope, biologists got their first glimpses of a different set of images — ...

Scientists say they've found an unexpected, 12.4-mile-thick layer of rock lurking below Bermuda's oceanic crust.

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Neanderthals are Homo sapiens’s closest-known relative, and today we know we rubbed shoulders with them for thousands of years, up until the very end of their long reign some 40,000 years ago. Most ...

Chemists have found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for ...