Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania turned human blood cells into early sperm cells by transplanting engineered tissue onto a mouse’s kidney, according to a study published this month in ...

In February 2026, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent a short test email carrying the subject line “Hello Universe” from a newly built spacecraft processor, marking the start of ...

New evidence from Wonderwerk Cave suggests early humans were handling fire far earlier than once believed, deep inside a ...

Mixing small amounts of water into diesel fuel can cut nitrogen oxide emissions by as much as 67 percent and particulate matter by up to 68 percent, according to a review of global studies conducted ...

Japan’s researchers built a self-regulating artificial photosynthesis device that turns water and CO2 into liquid fuel as sunlight shifts throughout the day. Artificial photosynthesis works much like ...

A vast new gravitational wave catalog, known as GWTC-5.0, went online for the first time on May 26, 2026, adding 161 newly confirmed signals from colliding black holes and bringing the total number of ...

Benjamin Santer, an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia (UEA), was one of the first researchers to detect a distinct human “fingerprint” in Earth’s climate system, work that helped ...

Paleontologists digging through sediment at Colorado’s Corral Bluffs have identified the southernmost fossils ever found of Purgatorius, a shrew-sized, tree-dwelling mammal recognized as the oldest ...

A protein that looked like a human virus-fighting switch did the opposite in sea anemones, revealing a surprising immune strategy shaped over 600 million years. The study, published in Nature Ecology ...

Scientists warn that space missions may be overlooking real evidence of life, raising the stakes for Mars, icy moons, and future alien-world exploration. The study was led by Inge Loes ten Kate, ...

Seven hundred meters beneath the floor of the southern North Sea, drillers working an oil exploration well once pulled up rock fragments that nobody thought to examine closely. Decades later, those ...