In 2016, AlphaGo beat Go master Lee Sedol. Poker soon followed, as AI systems learned not only to calculate odds but also to ...

Concrete normally has one job: keeping buildings from tumbling down. But researchers in China have made a version that can do ...

Twenty meters beneath a lake in northern Germany, archaeologists have found wood cut, split and shaped by people more than 10 ...

Powered robotic devices designed to enhance the wearer’s physical capabilities are being developed for an increasing range of uses.

RNA and DNA are chemical cousins. But one tiny difference between them (an extra oxygen atom repeated along RNA’s backbone) can radically change how the molecules behave. Researchers have now found ...

Kooshki, male Asiatic cheetah in Iran. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Before the war began in February 2026, there was some rare good news for Iran’s imperiled Asiatic cheetahs. Rangers spotted and filmed ...

On July 4, 2025, astronomers watched a cosmic explosion do something it was not supposed to do. The event began with a ...

It seems like humans may have a small but persistent turning bias in the way they walk. The researchers tested whether ...

Compound 991 binds directly to AMPK and switches it on. The researchers confirmed that it activated the enzyme in all three ...

HD 3167 b is hot enough to melt rock, yet strangely cool for a planet hugging its star. Scientists think an atmosphere may ...

This is all covered by Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which is one of physics’ most familiar rules: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. But physicists in China have now ...

Pedro Groover.l More than 500 years ago, a teenage girl climbed (or was brought) nearly to the summit of one of the highest ...