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 ...

A global review finds that water-in-diesel emulsion can slash NOx and soot at the same time, offering a cheaper path to cleaner diesel engines.

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

On a nighttime field survey in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a researcher spotted something on the underside of a leaf that looked exactly like a fungus consuming a spider. It had the pale, elongated growths ...

Trees planted to protect crops from wind are driving away the migratory and wetland birds that depend on open farmland to survive. Agricultural conservation programs across Europe, North America, and ...

The macaques mostly did not look sick. That is what makes the finding harder to dismiss. In a new study on chronic wasting disease, researchers exposed cynomolgus macaques to infected cervid material ...

“Global Mean Sea Level is rising and it will continue to do so for centuries.” That is not a warning from an activist group. It is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, writing in plain ...

The last execution in Great Britain took place in 1964, but Tory politicians still periodically raise the possibility of reinstating capital punishment in tub-thumping speeches designed to convince ...

A Conversation between Alex Byrne, Holly Lawford-Smith and John McLaughlin John: What is the phrase assigned sex at birth (ASAB) meant to convey? Does it imply that the recording of infants’ sex is ...

In Muslim communities, homosexuality is intrinsically linked to anxiety, intimidation, violence and, in some cases, death. For many, it involves living a closeted existence for fear of being ...